From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 10 13:56:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B478537B403 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5AKuOs25914; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:56:24 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:56:24 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: marwan@q8internet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mouse for 4.2 Message-ID: <20010611085623.B24358@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dead_line@hotmail.com on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:33:53AM -0000 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, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:33:53AM -0000, Dead Line wrote: > > Hello Jonathan, > Do you mean i should set this Option "SWCursor" > In my kernel and recompile? > If not then please can you give details? thanks you. > Nothing so drastic. You make the tweak in /etc/11/XF85Config (XFree86-4). There's a section for invoking the driver for your card. Match for: Section "Device" And add the: Option "SWCursor" in there. If you're using XFree86-3.x, you'll have to check the man pages. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter > Marwan > > >From: Jonathan Chen > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Iam on FreeBSD 4.2-Release, and Iam using the X. > > > > > > Everything is fine, But the mouse, Its working but its not > > > appearing as a pointer or an arrow, Its coming as a Big white > > > squere so when i move the mouse this big white thing is moving, > > > >Sounds like a buggy driver. You may want to add > > > > Option "SWCursor" > > > >in the Device section for your card. The default is hardware cursor, > >which sounds buggy for your card. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message