Re: [Nolug] Debian and ATI Radeon 7000 AGP

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:55, Craig Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 12:53, Craig Jackson wrote:
> > > Thanks. It was a bad ps/2 port. I used a serial mouse and it worked.
> >
> > A bad PS/2 port causes framebuffer errors?
> >
> > You're not using Windows, are you????
> >
> Framebuffer option was irrelevant. With/without, X would not start. It
> was definitely the mouse. After I disconnected the ps/2 mouse, X worked
> fine, just no mouse. When I added the serial mouse, it was OK.

Well, that's truly bizzare.

Anyone know how a bad PS/2 mouse port could make X think that it
needs to use fb?

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