Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:44:37 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: leegold <leegold@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X will not start as root - need help Message-ID: <20021024094437.GA29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021024010752.5D630EA99@server2.fastmail.fm> References: <20021024010752.5D630EA99@server2.fastmail.fm>
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i have a Genius NetScroll, but it should work with your mouse just fine.
# leegold@fastmail.fm / 2002-10-24 01:07:52 +0000:
> 1.
> $ grep mouse /etc/rc.cont
> moused_enable="YES"
if you haven't tinkered with /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which you should
not), you're fine here.
> 2.
> $ dmesg
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>
> 3.
> my x config. file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
s/MouseSystems/auto/ (replace "MouseSystems" with "auto")
there were many people on the lists (including myself) with this
problem. the shared secret seems to be that the only working
combination to get mouse to work is
moused_type="auto" in /etc/rc.conf (it has this value by default)
Option "Protocol" "auto" in /etc/X11/XF86Config
go figure.
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>
> Option "ClearDTR"
> Option "ClearRTS"
erm, these are something special needed for MS mice, right? (haven't
found anything in either XF86Config(5) or XFree86(1).
> EndSection
oh, btw, two nitpicks:
1) the xf86config-generated XF86Config file is 5% configuration, 10%
empty lines and 85% comments. that's fine for editing, but you sent
quite an amount of junk to lots of people. getting rid of the noise
is easy, so there's no point in avoiding it. i use this script for
just this purpose:
------8<------
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
"-s")
pattern='s/#.*$//;/^[[:space:]]*$/d'
shift
;;
*)
pattern='/^[[:space:]]*#.*$/d'
;;
esac
sed -E $pattern $1
------8<------
put it in your ~/bin (I call it "decom").
2) your mailer wraps lines when it shouldn't (could be a pilot
error). that's not so much of a problem in this case, but could
completely ruin the email if you were sending a patch. it will be
better if you send files as attachments.
let us know if the new setup works.
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