XWindow Blues, a little help?

[Saphier]

Ok, I've just installed RedHat 8.0 on a 466 mhz machine with a generic, 3 button PS2 mouse, installation was smooth (mouse works), but when i try to start xwindows using startx command, it gives me the following errors:

(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
Device or Resource busy
(EE) Mouse1: Cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device Mouse1
No core pointer.

Errr.. yeah, im quite new to the linux enviroment and i've been too spoiled by GUI, so i'm not that familiar with the command line interfaces. I've also managed to view the xf86config, but not edit it (the command used was, view).. so if someone can tell me how to make the config file non-readonly or even fix the problem all together, i would be glad and grateful

Thanks in advance for the help :D

[mdwatts]

PS/2 mouse?

Try as root

ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

and see if that helps.

[Saphier]

That command yielded a 'file exisits' .. and didn't help, unfortunately, x still refuses to start with the same error. thanks for the effort anyways

[mrBen]

What the result of ls -l /dev/mouse?

You could paste the contents of XF86Config here for use to look at.

To edit it, first become root, and then it should be read-write.

[Saphier]

Yeah, file exisit comes up when i type that command in. I will edit this post and post the contents of my xf86 config when i get home.

[mrBen]

I know the file exists - what I was wanting to know was whether or not the existing file points to the correct device. What is the actual output from the command I gave?

[Saphier]

Oh. Sorry for misreading that, but the output was:
lrwxrwxrw 1 root root 5 Nov 25 06:11 /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux#

************************************************** ********************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# ************************************************** ********************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection


Oh, also, read-write command didn't work, is there another command that will allow me to modify XF86Config? Thanks again



EDIT:
YAY! I got Xwindows to run. All i did was set the AGP aperature size to 64 (from 128megs, which was incorrect, since i only have 128 meg ram) and turned the install PnP OS to NO (which probably fixed the mouse).. so now i only have to figure out why my linux desktop is so insanely large that i have to scroll my desktop (only a bit of it is shown)

EDIT EDIT:
Yes! Fixed that too, all i had to do was editing the XF86config.
i feel so proud, haha, now onto the network.

Thanks guys for ALL your help :D :D :D