Xorg error 104 translation

[Jude DaShiell]

I did a little research on Xorg error 104 and a little more 
experimentation on this computer system and have come to the conclusion 
that error 104 properly translates to something like: "your hardware won't 
work with our interface and we have no clue why it won't work either". 
The research on bugzilla suggested it had something to do with a mouse 
being plugged into the computer.  Okay no problem I'm totally blind but 
don't have a problem with walking so I remove the mouse from the computer. 
The error still happens whether the mouse is plugged into the computer or 
not.  Also, the setup program for x configuration runs into that same 
error. Now here's where this whole situation gets real curious.  This is 
not preventing me from typing telinit 5 at the command prompt and when I 
do that I get to the short beep and manage to log into X and then 
gnopernicus comes up talking.  Unfortunately root is all that can run 
telinit 5 so I have ethernet cable disconnected if I go into X that way. 
I do know the minimum memory requirement for X is 192M and I have only 
128M on this very old and out of warranty Dell now.  In the interests of 
furthering Science next week I will get a memory upgrade on this machine 
and try all of this again.  If the situation goes away, a better message 
for error 104 is insufficient memory.  It will be the end of next week 
when I next write on this list about this topic because by then I'll have 
a little more information.  By the way, the mouse I had plugged in was a 
microsoft intellimouse.