I have recently installed FC5 (2.6.16) on my Dell Inspiron 6000 and
everything seemed to work out fine until a few days ago. Now when I
boot up it goes to a login screen then goes black....it does this 3
times and then flashes a window that says "Failed to start the X
server. It seems that the pointer device is not set up correctly."
I'm using the touchpad but I have tried a USB mouse @ startup but it
did the same thing.
Any suggestion to try???? Are there any config files I can edit to get
me back to the GUI???
I'm lost. Thanks for any help that can be given.
Ckesey,
Check your filesystems, is /tmp or / full?
If so that might also cause X to 'crash'.
I had this in the past also, to small harddisk so not enough space in
/tmp and /.
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