Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:41:41 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Lei Luo <lluo@eecis.udel.edu> Subject: Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows Message-ID: <20030928124141.GJ94873@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <444qzgocn5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <002901c378a4$e9d584c0$17850480@D4T7J231> <444qzgocn5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:51:10PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Lei Luo" <lluo@eecis.udel.edu> writes: > > > I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed > > FreeBSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I > > tried to configure mouse and X windows, I had big problem. I think that it would be more robused to install the mouse for you console first with /stand/sysinstall. If this worked you could move to getting your mouse work under X. > > As instructed in the handbook, I configured the type and port of the > > mouse (PS2, so I used the default). But after I enabled it, I would be > > in one of two situations. What have done (exactly; aka commands given out) so far? > What were you using for this configuration? xf86cfg? > > > If I skipped this step and tried to configure X windows directly, of > > course, the system warned me that I hadn't configured the mouse and > > asked me to go back to configure it. > > > > My computer is a Gateway 2000 desktop with 200 Intel Pentium II > > processor. Very old so I used to run Linux on it. > > Maybe the same X configuration will work. > > > P.S., I didn't see the kernel configuration menu. Is it removed from > > FreeBSD 5.x? Consider using 4.x as a newbie. You have enove to lean as it is. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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