From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 31 10:43:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8746837B400 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from cr478760a ([24.42.0.243]) by fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.04.06 201-253-122-122-106-20020109) with ESMTP id <20020331184332.VEOS213949.fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@cr478760a> for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:43:32 -0500 From: "Vikas Gandhi" To: Subject: RE: USB Mouse in X11 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:43:19 -0500 Message-ID: <000201c1d8e3$f0484b10$f3002a18@cr478760a> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020331183812.GA229@bsdprophet.org> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.42.0.243] using ID at Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:43:21 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org No need to be so fierce. I have read the manual...theres nothing about usb mice in there... -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Scott Corey Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:38 PM To: Vikas Gandhi Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB Mouse in X11 First off this isn't -questions. On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 01:26:58PM -0500, Vikas Gandhi wrote: > Hi guys! > > I first tried installing FreeBSD from the mini.iso, however I couldn't > get XF86 working, so I tried the full install iso. I've installed that makes since, it's not on the mini.iso. > XF864.1 and run XFree86 -configure. It's detected my radeon, but now I fine, this puts a file into your /root (You did run it as root, right?) of XF86Config.new. Did you follow the instructions in the handbook to complete the configuration process? > get 2 errors, one is that it says I only have 256kb of video memory and > it cant load the screens (I've tried changing this with xfree86 > configure) and it can't detect my mouse. I've also tried XF86Setup and XF86Setup is ONLY for XFree86 3.3.6, it WILL not work with 4.x versions. > put /dev/usbmouse as my mouse.but to no avail. If anyone knows what to > do to fix either problem or both, please help me :-) > So doing all of this has done nothing, right? I would recommend that YOU do a LITTLE checking on the handbook, and I'll be nice and give you the url. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > Thanks! > -Vikas -- Scott B. Corey scott@bsdprophet.org irc.openprojects.net #bsdprophet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message