hack lesson?

[Chris M. Rafael]

-----Original Message-----
From: R Scott Belford [mailto:sctinc at mac.com]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:47 PM
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Subject: [luau] Re: hack lesson?

>My X log indicates a failure with my 
>default font that keeps it from starting.  I can disable my xdm and get 
>a login prompt.  I would say that perhaps I just had an x failure and 
>freaked out.  It wouldn't be the first time.

I've seen the problem you've descibed before.  It happened 
once on a box I was working on, and it turned out that my
mouse had a conflict with another device, so when I booted
up, the mouse never got initialized.  When X tried starting
up, it would crash because it could not find the mouse.  Then
I would be put in that loop you described.  Broken fonts would
do the same thing, or a wrong path to the font dir.

Just curious, when you turn of xdm and log in text mode, does your
mouse work?