Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:03:23 -0600 From: "Kris Wieschhaus" <ktrw25@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problems using the GUI Message-ID: <BAY103-F4E2C109B78446DAC1D30DD2E40@phx.gbl>
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I've been using FreeBSD for about a month now as I will be presenting
it to my class in a couple of weeks. I am having a problem getting the
the Windows X System to work. I have been trying for the last 2 weeks
to get it to work. I have looked in the FAQ's section and the FreeBSD
Handbook, but I am still unsuccessful.
When I run startx I get
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) <default pointer>: Cannot find which device to use.
(EE) xf860OpenSerial: No Device specified
(EE) <default pointer>: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "<default pointer>"
No core Pointer
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
I went to the X.Org web site and came to the conlusion that it is a
problem with the Windows X System not "playing" with my mouse the way
it should. I have a USB mouse and I can move the cursor around the
screen.
I have modified the /root/xorg.conf.new file for my mouse but was
still unsuccessful at starting the GUI
My modifications were as follows
Section ServerLayout
Identifier X.org Configured
Screen 0 Screen0 0 0
InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer
InputDevice Keyboard CoreKeyboard
EndSection
I added this section:
Section Pointer
Protocol SysMouse
Device /dev/sysmouse
EndSection
I modified this section:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option Protocol SysMouse
Option Device /dev/sysmouse
EndSection
Any help that I could get would be much appreciated.
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