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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:23:07 +0000
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0 installation problem
Message-ID:  <20080130172307.GC1131@brick.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <75988d070801300653u21137648w86bd17b2c1f212a4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <75988d070801300653u21137648w86bd17b2c1f212a4@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:53:14AM -0500, FreeBSD User wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.0-Current for amd64, and I am having
> problems with my mouse and video card.
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> My hardware is as follows:
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> Gigabyte p35-ds3r motherboard
> Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (Q6600)
> NVidia 8400GS
> Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000 mouse
> Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
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> Problem 1:
> The mouse is not working at all.  When I look at the output of "dmesg",
> I see the mouse (ums0), however no movement.  I have gone into sysinstall
> and tried every available option under mouse configuration, but I can't g=
et
> it to work.
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> Problem 2:
> I cannot get X started.  I get the following errors:
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> Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
> Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
> Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
> No drivers available

Try the following:

 # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers
 # make config

Are the relevant items for mouse, keyboard and the nv driver checked?
If not, check them and try reinstalling the drivers package.

HTH

Dan

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