Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:49:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> To: Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :( Message-ID: <20050625044510.I82994@dualman.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20050625070116.19260.qmail@web52504.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050625070116.19260.qmail@web52504.mail.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > --- Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> wrote: >> >> What I'm writing is very basic, but I just got an answer >> to a question where I'd forgotten a very basic thing, so >> don't get insulted. I may be way off base, being a relative >> newbie, but if so, it'll at least probably get a quicker >> response from somewhere else. :) > > First off Denny, thanks for answering my email for help. Here goes.. >> >> 1) Are you still running GENERIC kernel? > > YES > >> 2) Do you have /dev/psm0? > > YES > >> 3) Do you have, in /etc/rc.conf >> >> moused_enable="YES"? > > Yes, manually entered it. > >> 4) Do you have, in your kernel config file, >> >> # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse >> device psm # PS/2 mouse > > YES > >> 5) Do you show something like this in dmesg? >> >> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 >> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 >> > > Yes, actually here is what it says: > > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 > >> 6) I know when you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X will >> still probe & try to come up with a working solution, >> but as to where it stores it's settings, unless in the >> afore mentioned file, I don't know. >> > > I'd love to see the file it generates for X looks "great" when I leave > it alone and startkde with no files. > >> 7) And if, after running without an xorg.conf file, it does >> have one it generated, does it have anything like this? > > I can't seem to find the one it's using, here are the results of a > seach I did. I had one file in my home directory from another machine > but that file is not named valid for use, here is the seach results. > > liam# find / -name "xorg.c*" > > /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg > /usr/home/wiliweld/xorg.conf.new > >> >> # Identifier and driver >> >> Identifier "Mouse1" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option "Protocol" "Auto" >> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" >> >> 8) There have been other posts about xorg.conf problems >> recently. As I said, if you don't configure it yourself, >> it'll try to probe & come up with something. I guess it's >> having trouble with your mouse, though, which, btw, you >> didn't mention what kind of mouse. Did you check the hardware >> compat list? Hope some of this helped. > > The mouse I'm using works fine in another 32bit 5.4 machine and here is > the seach path results: > > [root@bsd ~]-> find / -name "xorg.c*" -print > /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg > /root/xorg.conf.new > > And inside the last file there is the mouse settings of: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > EndSection > > I'll keep hacking Denny, thanks > Sorry couldn't have been of more help. I almost fell asleep here, reading the man page on Xorg. At this point, that's my best suggestion. Hope you get it fixed. Denny White -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCvSity0Ty5RZE55oRAvBSAJ9Ad2hiAoC9tDogky4UxgPeoJIPUgCgwtQy iQzKVbbll0AuM6HKRqODciY= =Z2du -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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