From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 23:29:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A0814EC8 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA00826; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:29:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:29:39 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help or direct to help In-Reply-To: <389142DA.1C92ACE2@nwlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > 1) When attempting to play sounds(WAV, MP3), all that came out > > of the speakers was garbage(static and noise). > > Sorry, I can't help you there, I've had sound problems of my own that > remain unresolved. > > > 2) X-Windows failed to start due to an initialization problem > > with the mouse. > > I've had the same problem that seemed to be caused by the "moused" > daemon interfering with the X server's mouse configuration. Go to > /etc/rc.conf, and if you see anything related to "moused", comment it > out or remove it. Then try to start X again. You may have to reboot or > find some way to kill the moused daemon first, however. I'm sure there > is an easy way to do it that doesn't require a reboot, but I don't know > how. killall moused generally works for that purpose... But, generally speaking, when it works, moused interacts with X quite well. When sysinstall works, the post-install config menu has a nice setup and test feature for moused. And, of course, XF86Setup (case sensitive) is the program to run for X configuration, including mouse setup under X. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message