From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 05:41:45 2003 Return-Path: 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 3230E16A4BF for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5EF4400E for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HLX008Y3CLIOU@smtp07.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:41:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h8SCfgQL013772;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h8SCff6p013771; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:41:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:41:41 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <444qzgocn5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030928124141.GJ94873@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <002901c378a4$e9d584c0$17850480@D4T7J231> <444qzgocn5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> cc: Lei Luo Subject: Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:41:45 -0000 On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:51:10PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Lei Luo" 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/