From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 6:22:34 2002 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 7F6B237B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viefep11-int.chello.at (viefep11-int.chello.at [213.46.255.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF7943E4A for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ant@overclockers.at) Received: from Deadcell.ant ([212.17.108.240]) by viefep11-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20020712132228.VWIN4240.viefep11-int.chello.at@Deadcell.ant>; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:22:28 +0200 Received: from Deadcell.ant (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6CDMT5Q000441; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:22:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ant@Deadcell.ant) Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6CDMONv000440; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:22:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:22:24 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user woes Message-ID: <20020712132224.GA372@Deadcell.ant> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:41:59AM -0700, chris wrote: > Hello, two things, > > One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t msdos > /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error. Could you post the output of `mount`? I've once had troubles too with mounting fat32 partitions since the slice-numbering often turns out to be different from what you might expect. > Second, I'm having difficulty getting my mouse to work properly in X. It > works in the console, but when I load either kde or gnome, the moment i > move the mouse the slightest bit, it jumps to the topleft corner of the > screen, sometimes opening a menu on the desktop. It does not respond to > mouse clicks, and moving the mouse does not do much. It is a USB MS > Intellimouse optical. I have also tried using a generic ps/2 mouse, but I > get the same error. > For moused in console use: "moused -p /dev/ums0" or set the appropriate values in /etc/rc.conf. For X use: "Options" "Protocol" "Auto" "Options" "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" see `man 5 XF86Config`. This should get the USB mouse working in both X and the console. HTH regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ant@overclockers.at Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message