Help!
I'm pretty much a linux noob and I'm trying to admin a remote redhat server here from a windows box (I have no physical access to the server). It came fairly bare-bones, all I have is ssh for access, and I'm trying to get a GUI working remotely. I installed the latest XFree86 but of course the server has no mouse or video. So I've tried both Xwin32 and Cygwin/X and they both seem to have the same problem - whenever I run 'X -configure' it always comes up with the same error:
XFree86 is not able to detect your mouse.
Edit the file and correct the Device.
And when I try 'XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new' as it suggests, I get the same thing:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such file or directory.
(EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
No core pointer
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
Isn't Cygwin/X supposed to emulate the mouse and the display for me? I'm running an 'X -broadcast' on the windows machine and have followed the advice of some good online tutorials to get this set up properly. How do I get this to work? Thanks in advance for any advice.
- Ian
I'm pretty much a linux noob and I'm trying to admin a remote redhat server here from a windows box (I have no physical access to the server). It came fairly bare-bones, all I have is ssh for access, and I'm trying to get a GUI working remotely. I installed the latest XFree86 but of course the server has no mouse or video. So I've tried both Xwin32 and Cygwin/X and they both seem to have the same problem - whenever I run 'X -configure' it always comes up with the same error:
XFree86 is not able to detect your mouse.
Edit the file and correct the Device.
And when I try 'XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new' as it suggests, I get the same thing:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such file or directory.
(EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
No core pointer
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
Isn't Cygwin/X supposed to emulate the mouse and the display for me? I'm running an 'X -broadcast' on the windows machine and have followed the advice of some good online tutorials to get this set up properly. How do I get this to work? Thanks in advance for any advice.
- Ian