From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 16:41: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hot.sand.net (sand.net [153.105.100.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBB737B443 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adsl-64-171-119-16.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.171.119.16]) by hot.sand.net (8.10.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g340d7s10665; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:39:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:40:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [Newbie]XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :( Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: FreeBSD Questions To: newbie@XFree86.Org From: John Clark In-Reply-To: <20020403155245.H210-200000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Message-Id: <96DDE582-4764-11D6-8E71-0050E420D957@ucsd.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) 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 I have not installed XFree on a FreeBSD system in a while. So my comments are perhaps a bit general. That being said, I checked my FreeBSD 4.4 setup, and there are the following items: %ls /dev/*mou* /dev/mouse /dev/sysmouse %ls -ltr /dev/*mou* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 24 2000 /dev/mouse -> /dev/sysmouse crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 128 Dec 20 09:28 /dev/sysmouse %ps -ax | grep mouse 226 ?? Is 0:00.00 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto In this case, I presume moused associates /dev/psm0 with /dev/sysmouse. Also, as I recall installing XFree on a NetBSD system, I could not get the auto configuration part of the Xserver to work as in generat a config file that worked. I used xf86config, which asks a zillion questions but generated a working config file eventually. I did look at the log file to verify that the X server was seeing the video card that I had, which in my case was my Presario Laptop, Trident Blade mumblefoo. Also, in the NetBSD case if I tried to bring the server up without a mouse, bad things happened. Hope this gives some clues... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message