Hello all,

I just installed arch .6 and when I try to startx it says there is a problem with my mouse in /dev. So I have several distros and went into another one and looked and in /dev/ in arch it is empty with a file called null? Anyone know what might be wrong I have installed it twice with the same results.

Thanks in advance for any help.

/dev/null is a standard "device" on all Linux distros - it is the so-called black hole into which one can pass anything: e.g. microsoft > /de/null ... if only that easy!!

It's empty when you examine it from another distro because arch uses devfs - a kernel feature that handles the dev filesystem dynamically so that only the devices that are available are shown there. The filesystem is loaded when arch boots, which doesn't happen if you use another distro instead.

As for your problem, your XF86Config file is probably pointing to the wrong mouse device. This depends on how your mouse is connected. If you update your arch system now you should get XFree86 4.4 which can automatically configure itself. Just rename the config file to see this.