Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:12:10 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at> To: chris <neo@uclink.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user woes Message-ID: <20020713121210.GA644@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712104740.00b127d8@uclink.berkeley.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020712104740.00b127d8@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:54:58AM -0700, chris wrote: > >> One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > >> FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t > >msdos > >> /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error. > > > >Could you post the output of `mount`? I've once had troubles too with > >mounting fat32 partitions since the slice-numbering often turns out to be > >different from what you might expect. > > the partition i want to mount isn't listed in mount, but here's the output > anyway: > > /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) > /dev/ad4s1f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad4s1g on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad4s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > procfs on /proc (procfs, local) > I think that should be mount -t msdos /dev/ad4s5 /mnt rather than /dev/ad0s5. > > > >For moused in console use: > >"moused -p /dev/ums0" > >or set the appropriate values in /etc/rc.conf. > > 'moused -p /dev/ums0' in console returns a 'Device busy' error. My lines > for the mouse in /etc/rc.conf are as follows, however: > > moused_port="/dev/ums0" > moused_type="auto" > moused_enable="YES" First you would have to kill the moused processes running of course, perhaps you forgot that? And maybe this is a redundant question, but do you have the whole USB support options in your kernel config for the kernel to support USB? > >For X use: > >"Options" "Protocol" "Auto" > >"Options" "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > >see `man 5 XF86Config`. > > > >This should get the USB mouse working in both X and the console. > > Those are the the settings I'm already using...but it still doesn't work. Hm this is just what I use on my laptop and it works pretty well. HTH regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ant@overclockers.at Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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