New serial mouse - can't get into windowmanager from kdm

From: Robert (NOSPAM_robert_schmidli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/03

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    I've just installed a new Microsoft serial mouse. I had to change a few
    bits of my XF86Config to get it to work thus:

    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier "Mouse0"
            Driver "mouse"
    # Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
            Option "Protocol" "auto"
            Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    EndSection

    I am able to get into my graphical desktop directly from the command line
    using "startx", and I can get into kdm, but if I try to get into kde, twm
    etc from kdm, the screen briefly goes blank then I get dumped back into the
    kdm screen.

    I've tried using XFree86 -configure and xf86cfg with similar results.

    Do windowmanagers use different config files?

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