Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:11:40 +0000 From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No Xorg mouse running 10.1 as a qemu guest on linux. Message-ID: <20141124061140.GB12294@milliways>
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Hi, I'm normally a linux user - specifically beyond linuxfromscratch (BLFS), and in a previous life I guess I must have been *really* bad, because I've ended up taking responsibility for BLFS's texlive issues (initially, our 'from source' build was not building everything, particularly asy, biber, and xindy). As part of that I created some test scripts to check if what I was doing with the "modern" (read that mostly as "UTF-8") parts of texlive worked, and now I'm trying to make them more-generally useful (in 2014, context has had "issues", building xindy from-source did not work on my first attempt, and my initial use of biber-1.8 with perl-5.20 was problematic). Now that I have qemu working, I guessed that FreeBSD would be a useful test to make my scripts portable. I've now got them running on your system in qemu, but I cannot use Xorg to run a PDF viewer because my mouse is not working. So: 1. Is there any secret to getting a mouse working in 10.1 in Xorg under qemu ? I've tried various things, including building vmmouse and adding appropriate xorg.conf lines to force that, but it made no difference. 2. A subsidiary question - have you guys changed /bin/sh in 10.1 ? All the documentation google finds suggests you are using a POSIX /bin/sh, probably the almquist shell [ I was unable to install the documentation, I guess that the time I was trying to do that (the small hours in this county / late in the USA) was perhaps not a good time ], but all my attempts to use what are apparently appropriate constructs, such as 'export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8' and setting variables to the result of a subshell, such as VAR=$(command arg) failed - but using csh-style constructs seemed to work. 3. Using 'pkg' I've installed (amongst other things), xfce, Xorg (xfce did not pull in 'startx' as a dependency, which surprised me) and the supposedly full texlive (in practice, no asy, no biber, no xindy, and context [ MkIV ] on x86_64 is broken - similar to some linux distros). I see that along the way I've acquired /usr/local/bin/bash [4.3.30] which is good and lets me invoke my configure sript. But is bash a common thing to find on FreeBSD, or did I just get lucky ? (or 'unlucky', I suppose, if you do not like the GPL). TIA ĸen [ since FreeBSD seems not especially keen on UTF-8, read that as 'ken' if you get something like '?en' : I _like_ obsolete greenlandic letters ;) ] -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
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