Laptops :: compaq evo n115 touchpad problems

If you have a hard drive, you could install DSL to that, or just save the extensions to the hdd (or usb too) but still use the livecd.

Actually, you could also install it to your usb, and boot off that.

I got some more steps worked out. I don't know how to get the laptop to boot from the USB (I can't seem to get to BIOS using any of the methods I'm familiar with), so I decided to just back up and restore from the USB drive, and still boot from the CD. I tried just changing some minor things and backing them up, and that seemed to work.

I installed XFree86 and the XF86Config-4 file successfully, edited the .xserverrc file as per instructions, and got everything working. I could exit xterm and restart it, and it would work fine. Then I tried to shut down and reboot, and I got the error message that it could not exec /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 because there was "no such file". How do I get that part to work? I've searched around but all the instructions I've seen seem to stop short of helping with this error.

I suppose your backup was restored, but XFree86 wasn't installed.

You have to load the XFree86 extension _before_ you launch X after every reboot (everything is gone since it was in your ramdisk)
Use the mydsl autoload features, or manually mydsl-load it.

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