Hi, I am new to Linux and am having some problems getting KDE to run on my Toshiba A75-S226 laptop. I am dual booting with Windows XP and everything seems to be going okay, but when I select Linux from the boot loader, I am taken to a command prompt instead of a GUI. When I try running "kde" or "startx" from the command line I get several errors relating to the touchpad (set as mouse0 in XF86Config-4) and the graphics card... Since I am dual booting and can only access the internet when I am booted to Windows (with NTFS) I am not able to copy and paste the full error message... Sorry!! Any help setting this up would be greatly appreciated

as root, try running the command

X -configure

this will create an XF86Config.new file,

see if that helps

Okay, that gave me something different!! I am now left with a blue screen with an "X" in the middle of it (I am assuming this is the mouse pointer). The "X -configure" command worked perfectly, then I ran the command that was suggested by Mandrake - something like "XFree86 -xf86configure /root/XF86Config.new"

Now, as I said, I have a blue screen with an "X" It has been sitting like that for a while now...

Alright - Update: The GUI is now loading after I copied the new XF86Config.new file ontop of the old XF86Config-4 file... but I have no touchpad control or keyboard control... any ideas??

ok well thats a good sign,

put this into your config file

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

im pretty sure touchpads run under the psaux just like a ps2


oh and as for keyboards

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

remove the old keyboard and mouse first

I don't think I am editing the correct config file... whenever I make changes to it, nothing happens!! I am editing etc/X11/XF86Config-4... is this right??

Update: I made the changes you suggested to XF86Config-4 and now the system is no longer booting to KDE at all!! I think I will run your first suggestion again to reset things...

Update: managed to avoid that by rewriting the mouse section, but still... I downloaded the synaptics driver, copied the synaptics_drv.o file to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/ and edited the XF86Config-4 file to include:

Section"InputDevice"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900"
Option "Finger" "25 30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "20"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
EndSection

But now I get a blank screen with no HDD activity... Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing...

Oopsie!

mayb try

xf86cfg

config ur mouse n stuff from there

Try turning off the "Legacy USB Support" in the bios settings. That worked for me.