Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:12:17 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Shawn Halloran <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drivers ?? Message-ID: <3C669BE1.9060502@potentialtech.com> References: <OE53SQZ2SG8EWguEi1u00008512@hotmail.com>
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Shawn Halloran wrote: > > 1) Where do I find inforation about current drivers? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware.html > a) I have an Intellipoint Optical USB mouse - PS/2 compatible. I can not > get the mouse daemon or X to initialize the mouse. FreeBSD recocnizes > the USB mouse during installation, but I can not configure it. If you look through dmesg output, what device is the mouse using? (i.e. ps2 mice generally use /dev/psm0) Make sure that you configured the proper device when setting up your mouse in X. > b) I have a 3dfx VooDoo5 5500 PCI graphics card - the only driver listed > is a VooDoo3 (generic). That may be the best you can do. Vid cards are supported by XFree, so you'll find more informatin about what is supported at the xfree.org site: http://www.xfree.org/cardlist.html > 2) How do I tell the OS where to look for the drivers once their > located, and how do I update the drivers? "drivers" are integrated into the base system. To update drivers, update FreeBSD. Use cvsup as described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html If you need a "driver" that isn't installed by default, you'll need to rebuild your kernel as described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > These are probably very stupid questions, but the greatest amount of > success I've experience to date is the /ls/ command (definately a newbie). No, they're just newbie questions. They show that you don't have as much experience in a UNIX-like environment as you do in a MSish environment and that you're working it out a little at a time. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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