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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:06:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Bhaskarpandit <mbhaskar@us.oracle.com> (cont-AMKHARE)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Configuring a mouse
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980430100652.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804300006.RAA24606@mailsun3>

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1. Are you using moused ?
2. What does the Pointer-section in /etc/XF86Config look like ?
3. Show the mouse-config-line of your kernel-config-file.

Malte.

On 30-Apr-98 Bhaskarpandit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed BSD on my PC and am trying to configure X for 
> my hardware. After the configuration, I tried running the 
> shell script "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx", which calls xinit.
> I am able to bring up the X windows, but my mouse does not
> work on my system. I have run xf86config utility .
> 
> Here is what dmesg shows:
> 
> ROOT:/root # dmesg | grep mse
> mse0 not found at 0x23c
> ROOT:/root # dmesg | grep psm
> ROOT:/root # 
> 
> I rebuilt the kernel (as per the instructions) with psm0 enabled 
> and after booting the machine, I cannot run any X-based application at
> all. 
> 
> ROOT:/root # startx
> Bus error - core dumped
> 
> ROOT:/root # xterm
> Bus error 
> 
> I restored the original kernel and to my surprise, I still
> get the same error.
> 
> 1) How do I make my mouse to be recognized?
> 
> 2) What should I do to atleast make the X-windows based applications 
>    work with the old kernel?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mahesh
> 
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Date: 30-Apr-98
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