Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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/



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030928124141.GJ94873>