From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 20 12:01:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD4C16A429 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 12:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA53243D46 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 12:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4KC19ug047586; Sat, 20 May 2006 07:01:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <446F04FF.9090700@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 07:01:03 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Michaux , questions@freebsd.org References: <3cbaf1c80605191555k30f6a22fxeb667e3446aa76a3@mail.gmail.com> <446E5690.2010103@daleco.biz> <3cbaf1c80605191655m36084702ha035ad72b2ef0dff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cbaf1c80605191655m36084702ha035ad72b2ef0dff@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: cant run x-windows on fresh 6.1 install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:01:12 -0000 Peter Michaux wrote: > Ok, it is time for me to sound really stupid. > Not stupid, just, um, new? Everyone was Once Upon A Time ... >> Actually, it seems logical there *should* be one. >> What does dmesg(8) say in regard to this? Can >> you run moused(8)? What hardware is this, anyway? > > $ moused(8) > Badly placed ()'s Yup. The (8) refers to the manual section, see the manpage for man(1) for that. (Oh, and you'd do it like this: $ man man > $ moused > moused: no port name specified Yeah. Running moused needs to have some arguments. What's the output of ls /dev/sysmouse ? > $ dmesg(8) > Badly placed ()'s ditto above. > $ dmseg > dmseg: Command not found. Look carefully. That's dmesg, not dmseg ... dmesg should give you a boot message, which should show us something about your mouse. KDK -- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal