From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 22:33:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C89C37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E2543F75 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHba-000727-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:33:18 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHbI-00071m-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:33:01 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18oHbE-0009YD-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:32:56 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oHbD-00069N-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:32:55 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: ChRis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i got a problem Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:32:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030227062231.55054.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030227062231.55054.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302270832.55234.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18oHbI-00071m-00*rS4KmjdyPo6* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 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 Thursday 27 February 2003 8:22, someone, possibly ChRis, typed: > Hi, I'm a big fan of FreeBSD and have been using it > for a while, well my 4.0 software CD got messed up so > I had a friend get me 4.7, the installation went well > it's all installed, my problem is with the X > interface. When I start X my mouse icon dissappears > when I touch my mouse. And then it ends up in the top > right corner of the screen. I have tried various ways > to fix the problem but none have worked. I was > wondering if you knew what the problem was, or if > anyone else has reported this with the 4.7 realease. > Please write me back and let me in on what you think > is going on. Thanks alot. Chris, This is usually an error with the protocol of the mouse. Try reconfiguring XFree86 with XFree86 -configure. Then make sure that the mouse is set up properly. If it was working correctly when you checked it in sysinstall (if you enabled mouse support there), you can make X use that pipe by connecting it to moused. To do this, set: Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" In your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message