From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 13:40:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABB716A4C1 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.eecis.udel.edu (louie.udel.edu [128.4.40.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8914343FE9 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lluo@eecis.udel.edu) Received: by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix, from userid 62) id F3206328A0; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from D4T7J231 (sethi-lab2.pc.cis.udel.edu [128.4.133.23]) by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 0614A3289C for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002901c378a4$e9d584c0$17850480@D4T7J231> From: "Lei Luo" To: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:40:18 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=6.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,SUPERLONG_LINE,USER_AGENT_OE version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: * X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: UDEL-ECECIS: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.64 2002/10/22 MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:40:24 -0000 Hi, everyone, I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed Free= BSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I tried to = configure mouse and X windows, I had big problem. As instructed in the handbook, I configured the type and port of the mouse = (PS2, so I used the default). But after I enabled it, I would be in one of = two situations.=20 In the first situation, the background of the screen turns to blue and I ca= nnot see if the mouse cursor moving. I could not see the dialog any more. S= ometimes, if I just pressed enter, I could go back the previous screen, but= having a blue background now. More commonly, the system was just stuck the= re and the keyboard was locked. At this time, I had to turn off the power t= o shutdown the computer. In the second situation, the background was OK. But the mouse cursor was tw= inkling on the screen. In addition, the mouse cursor had a strange shape, n= ot rectangular, but just like some unprintable character displayed on a DOS= screen. Does anyone know what is wrong here and how to fix the problem? If I skipped this step and tried to configure X windows directly, of course= , the system warned me that I hadn't configured the mouse and asked me to g= o back to configure it. My computer is a Gateway 2000 desktop with 200 Intel Pentium II processor. = Very old so I used to run Linux on it. Thank you! P.S., I didn't see the kernel configuration menu. Is it removed from FreeBS= D 5.x? Also, when I tried to reboot or shutdown the computer with "reboot" = or "shutdown" commands, my computer was stuck instead of reboot or shutdown= . At that time, the power button on the computer could not work. I had to t= urn off the power switch on the wall. Does anyone have this problem, too?