hack lesson?

[R Scott Belford]

>
>> 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?
>


I never ran an application that used the mouse after disabling gdm.  I 
think I recall seeing that it had been identified/initialized correctly 
in my x log.