[wellylug] Re: Xorg --> 'No Core Pointer ?'

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 22:21 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:58:29 +1300 (NZDT)
> > From: David Murray <newslists at electronincantation.net.nz>
> > Subject: Re: [wellylug] Re: Xorg --> 'No Core Pointer' ?
> > To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
> > Message-ID: <20051023005653.I39622 at ada.home>
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> > 
> > > I'm fairly sure my use of '/dev/input/mice' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is OK,
> > > which leaves the question of missing devices or modules. I was not able to modprobe
> > > snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss and mousedev and usbhid or apt-install xserver-xorg-input-mouse
> > > or xserver-xorg-input-kbd .. Deb unstable could not find them and I could find no trace of
> > > them via pkg-search on www.debian.org
> > 
> > Well I s'pose those are the joys of using the Unstable version of Debian.
> > 
> > Probably time to upgrade to Debian Stable.
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> I tend to agree .. but will it fix the 'No Core Pointer' problem ?

Yes, Sarge still runs xfree86 - that will definitely fix your Xorg
problems.

Incidentally, you can't downgrade from Sid to Sarge.

jamie