Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:33:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: No mouse in X, Dell Inspiron 5150 Message-ID: <20040513131652.K5212@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
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Hello Family,
I have a new triple booted Dell Inspiron 5150 and the mouse
works with WindowsXP, Linux, and I can't get it to even be
detected with FreeBSD-5.2.1 installed from CD.
On my Mandrake-10.0 Linux /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it has the
mouse stanza of:
###################################################
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
###################################################
On the FreeBSD-5.2.1 machine I have a VERY nice KDE display with
the new Nvidia package and my current XF86Config section for
the mouse looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
###################################################
I've tried to add the "ExplorerPS/2" to the FreeBSD version
and the Xserver complains about not honoring the
"ExplorerPS/2" tag. And I also tried the line
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" and got nothing.
Once again the mouse was not detected during a
/stand/sysinstall configuration attempt either.
Needless to say, any help here would be appreciated.
This is the latest version of FreeBSD, 5.2.1 and I purchased
it to do a fresh install.
--
Bill Schoolcraft
PO Box 210076
San Francisco CA 94121
http://billschoolcraft.com
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