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- From: robert@pinus.slu.se (Robert Olsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: HELP! X11R5 gives "couldn't open device"; ultrix DS3100
- Keywords: ultrix ds3100 X11R5
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.121547.11704@pinus.slu.se>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 12:15:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.215736.9112@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Organization: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Aug27.215736.9112@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
- >
- >Hi, I need help! I have just installed binaries for X11R5 that I snarfed
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- >(non-root), it started to come up and then gave me this error:
- >
- >couldn't open device
- >giving up.
- >xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
- >xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
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-
- I got the same symptom when was installing X11R5 on
- DS 5000/20. I viewed the code and found that
- /dev/mouse was read protected: chmod a+r /dev/mouse
- did the job. xconsole had the same problem
- chmod a+r /dev/xcons fixed that. Hope this solves
- your problem.
-
- Robert Olsson
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