Ok, in Slackware 10.2 I restarted my machine, when into safe mode and then tried to go do the xorgconfig thing again so I could get my stupid middle mouse button to work.

I did everthing...

And for some reason beyond my ability to comprehend...doing that deleted EVERYTHING in that file.

I restart...bad move because my default runlevel is 5 and I cannot get into 3 to change all of this garbage because it get's stuck when it loads X11.

I put in the slackware disk to reinstall X11...and it says it cannot be completed because apparantly the file doesn't end in .tgz...which it does.

I need help, and I refuse to reinstall the dumb OS all over again.

I'm guessing you mean you were trying to get your mouse wheel to work.

I suspect this is not true

Well if you DID do everything, then I supose that includes deleting xorg.conf

When you get to the lilo screen select linux, then type space then 3 and then enter - this will boot you to runlevel 3 and bypass the default inittab setting of "4" in slackware (not "5").

Completely lost me here.

Once you have booted to the command line, start mc and verify that you did indeed delete xorg.conf. If so, just rename xorg.conf-vesa to xorg.conf - that might get you started. If you did not, you likely just change some lines that made the x-server fail to load. Of course, without any error messages it's a little hard to tell.

I suggest being a little more detailed in your posts.
I know you are frustrated, but this was next to useless.

By the way, re-installing is the windows way.
Also, the OS is not at fault here.

HTH

I guess it generated a negative attitude...but I am getting very frustrated. I said everyting that I was having problems with.

I will try and boot into run level 3 by pressing the space bar 3 times...

Oh, I never blamed the OS man. I was at fault and I know that, I am just way frustrated with things breaking on my watch latley.

Also, a little modesty in your response could have helped. You could realize that I need help and I am frustrated and pointing out everthing that I said that you think I am wrong about doesn't help much (as far as blaming the OS, what I did in xorgconfig etc.).

if you could give us some information on your system ie: specs you are running, we could help you out more.
I could even generate a new xorg.conf file for you to fit your needs, but I would need to know what your running, or at least what you can remember was set in your xorg.conf file originally. Mostly everything in there is commented out anyways, so you wouldn't need half of it, just the important stuff.

Frank wasn't much help yes, and yeah X can be most frustrating at times, but if you let it get to you, you'll only go back to M$
And I'm pretty sure NO ONE wants you to do that.

He meant:
at the boot prompt, hit space (only once) then 3 (to indicate the run level).

Hang on, you'll get it fixed. Always.

Cheers, Leon.

There are easier ways to configure X than xorgconfig, try xorgcfg or xorgsetup.

Right on, I booted into 3 and got X running again...except for one thing.

My Scroll button still doesn't work. I said yes to "emulate 3d buttons" and selected it as auto.

The mouse is an MX 1000

Oops, double post.

I remember having to do some fiddling to get my mouse wheel to work.

For what it is worth, this works for me in Mandrake and Debian

I have a mx 1000 an when I got it I tried to get all the buttons working on it. If you feel up to that challenge. It took me a while although I am not the best at this stuff yet. Here is a topic that describes how to do that also I believe to get your scroll button working for a mx 1000 you need to add . Heres that link to that post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=247340
Just use the second posters link and go from their this process also does require the installation of evdev to work otherwise X will just crash.

Hope this helps