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kind of a stupid question here but are you sure your useing the correct 
address for your mouse that always hung me up on xfree im used to slackware 
being /dev/mouse but in debian it can be /dev/input/mouse0 /dev/psaux 
/dev/input/mouse1 when you look at the log youll see EE no core pointer EE 
being the error line and the logs should be in /var/log/ as XFree86.log or 
something similar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earl" <earljviolet at juno.com>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:48 PM
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> -- "Bowie J. Poag" <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>Yup. You're fine -- As long as you have seen the X on the grey
> background, you've succeeded in getting X installed. The rest is
> cake.
>
> Thanks. At least I'm going in the right direction.
>
>>>If you havent done so already, apt-get install xinitrc. If I
> remember correctly, thats the package name in Debian. :) Either way,
> edit ~/.xinitrc and put whatever programs you want there..It's just a
> flat file, basically a script, that tells X what to load when it
> initializes... Fire up your favorite windowmanager, mozilla, or
> whatever. If X starts up, and finds nothing to do, it will exit
> immediately. Add a line in ~/.xinitrc that says "xterm" or something
> to stop it from immediately committing suicide. :)
>
> I tried finding .xinitrc and xinit on my machine and in the
> repositories with no luck. Still looking though.
>
> -- "Chad Woolley" <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Why not use xorg instead of XF86?  Isn't xorg newer/better?  Does
> xorg not work on a sparc?
> -- rubinson at u.arizona.edu (Claude Rubinson) wrote:
>>>It's because Earl's using Debian Stable which is still on XFree86
> (the testing and unstable branches have Xorg).  My guess would be
> that, for Earl's needs, Xorg and XFree86 are probably equivalent
> (unless it turns out that Xorg's got some drivers that he needs).
>
> I checked on the Xorg site as well as the XF86 site. Both seem to
> have the same or similar drivers and use the sunffb driver for the
> video card. I tried Xorg using FreeBSD and got similar results to
> XF86 in that neither worked on the initial try. Interestingly both
> identified the video card correctly. Apparently knowledge and the
> ability to use it are two different things in *nix too. Neither has a
> driver for the standard SPARC 1152x900x32 resolution which is all my
> monitor supports.
>
> The Debian Sparc mailing list seems to indicate more problems with
> Xorg for the Sparc but, as Claude said, that's testing and unstable
> so I'm not sure where the problems lie. I decided to go with stable
> as this is my first Debian install and first SPARC experience.
>
> I'm getting a lot of command line experience.
>
> Earl
>
>
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