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Subject: Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
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Henry Olyer wrote:
> I need more information to make this work.
> 
> help, please.  And thank you!
> 
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>wrote:
> 
>> Jules Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working
>>> mouse.
>>>
>>> when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the
>>> mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine.
>>>
>>> So...
>>>
>>>
>> If you are running hald you probably need
>>
>>        option  "AutoAddDevices"        "off"
>>        option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "off"
>>
>>
>> in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf
>>
>> Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in
>> the archives i believe.
>>
>> Chris
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> 
I got it all from the handbook and the mailing list archives.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=106398+109934+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20091011.freebsd-questions

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Chris