Subject: Re: Installing 1.5 on mac G4 AGP getting me nuts !
To: Samuel Hornus <Samuel.Hornus@crans.org>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/17/2001 09:35:19
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:44:47PM +0200, Samuel Hornus wrote:
>
> 2 : typing 'xinit' or 'Xmacppc', I get :
>
> Cannot open kbd/mouse : no such file or directory
>
> I'm sure this is a trivial problem but I don't really know the X window
> system... :-(
> what to do to get X starting correctly ? (Mac G4 AGP video (ATI 128))
>
On older macs (should be the same problem) I usually ..
`chown myusername /dev/ws*'
It will grab the wskb and wsmouse devices and make them malleable.
This is probably worth a send-pr, as it happens every install I
make. You may wish to change the permissions on those files
rather than the owner - no difference for me.
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