From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 16:32:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (mailout2-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D1437B6B6 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-66-24-71-185.rochester.rr.com [66.24.71.185]) by mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11454; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:28:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A639688.CEC04E9C@rochester.rr.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:32:08 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Hunt , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: no mouse pointer References: <3A637BA8.CBBC270E@niicommunications.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Hunt wrote: > > hardware: > > sis6326 8mb video card > xfree86 4.01 > intellimouse explorer (ps/2) > freebsd 4.2 > > problem: > > mouse acts correclty, but there is no pointer. > have tried, Intellimouse, MouseSystems, auto > for pointer protocol with no lock. Tried > /dev/sysmouse. dev/psm0, dev/mouse with mousd > running and disabled - no luck. > > Anyone have the correct pointer / dev for > this mouse and xfree86? Its the larger > of the two explorers -- the grey one, not > the white. > > thanks for any help. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I take it the mouse actually works except the actual "pointer" on the screen does not appear on your display?? Correct? Did you try starting X as root and a normal user both ?? are they any error messages on your screen AFTER exiting X Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message