Actually, I'm not aware of this. I consider myself a relative linux newbie, actually, but I'm pretty familiar with Debian because it's what I use all the time.

If someone asks a question about Debian or a Debian variant I'm familiar with, I can answer with confidence. If someone asks a question about a different distribution, I'll wait for someone familiar with that distribution to answer before I give it a go.

Let's play nice here Isaac. Everyone's just trying to help. I think the inittab advice was mistaken, but he's probably just familiar with a different distribution. Don't berate him for trying to give constructive input.

I think a reinstall is completely unnecessary - if he wants gnome and kde, he can apt-get install them himself now. Installing gdm (or xdm or kdm) seems like the correct answer to me. Did installing gdm solve your problem, Tylerious?

You're right, especially since Tylerious has gotten so far already without the benefit of a "newbie friendly" graphical desktop environment.

Yeah, thanks for pointing out GDM; it's working fine now!

I'm sorry about changing questions throughout the topic, but I thought I left it open with its title. It's not like I called it "/dev/input/mice/ error" or something.

I really don't know much of anything about Linux right now. I installed Debian so I could get my hands dirty with configuration instead of going with a distro like SUSE which does most everything itself. I actually did a net install, so even reinstalling, I would need to apt-get for the packages, I think.

But thanks everybody for the help. I really appreciate it.