Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:20:15 +0000 From: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help or direct to help Message-ID: <20000128132015.A36620@extremis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <389142DA.1C92ACE2@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:18:50PM -0800 References: <000801bf695a$6b0499e0$38794118@sshe1.sk.wave.home.com> <389142DA.1C92ACE2@nwlink.com>
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On 27/01 23:18, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> > 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.
If you want to use the mouse in both the console and X, you need to do
something like the following steps.
1 -- set your mouse up correctly in rc.conf. These 3 lines will do the
trick for most PS/2 mice.
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
After setting this, you should 'kill 1' and press CTRL-D to come back up
to multi user mode.
2 -- Ensure moused works OK and you can cut and paste between consoles.
If it doesn't try step 1 again, possibly with different values.
3 -- set up your XFree86 configuration file to use the following mouse
settings. The protocol should be auto or sysmouse, and the device
must be /dev/sysmouse. The following settings work for XFree86
3.9.17 -- I haven't got XFree86 3.3.x.
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
4 -- Start X.
5 -- Enjoy.
best;
gjvc
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