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Generic X Configuration

Please note that with both version 3.3 and 4.0 of XFree you can still use a normal mouse together with the touch panel. While XFree 4.0 can use the touch screen as its only pointer device, version 3.3 of the X server can't do that. If you have no other pointer and don't want X to choke on the configuration file, you can use a trick like this one:

Section "Pointer"
Protocol    "MouseSystems"
Device      "/dev/fifo"
EndSection

Where /dev/fifo is just a plain unused fifo ("mknod /dev/fifo p")

If, when calling startx, it fails with a message of Invalid Subsection Name, please check the previous error lines, as they explain what is wrong. They usually look like:

(--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
xf86Gunze.so: Unknown error loading module

The messages are pretty clear, if your are careful in reading them (I am not that careful, and lose half an hour in trying to figure out what was wrong).