Re: Problems installing rawhide and reporting thereof

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:37 -0400, Deji Akingunola wrote:
>  On 10/26/05, Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > 1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error in
>  > > the various X.log files:
>  > >
>  > > [snip]
>  > > Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>  > > Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>  > > Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
>  > > (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
>  > > (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
>  > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
>  > > No core pointer
>  > >
>  > > Fatal server error:
>  > > failed to initialize core devices
>  > > [snip]
>  > >
>  > > I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened.
>  >
>  > I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should be
>  > fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
>  > created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
>  > those exist?
>  >
>   I still experienced the same error using a 10/25 tree. 
This is because Chris changed it so we make the device nodes after
starting X.  Less useful.  The beating will commence shortly ;-)

Jeremy