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From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: conf/40255: problem with installing and configuring XFree86 4.2.0 to FreeBSD 4.6 release
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The following reply was made to PR conf/40255; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Steven Shen <shen_zhijian@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/40255: problem with installing and configuring XFree86 4.2.0 to FreeBSD 4.6 release
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:07:51 -0700

 Thus spake Steven Shen <shen_zhijian@hotmail.com>:
 > Dear Sir:
 > 
 > Yes, there is no "moused_enable="YES" " in file "/etc/rc.conf".
 > And I added this line in this file. Then, surprisingly,  it works now!
 > 
 > But, why? Though I have followed the steps very carefully during the
 > installation and configuration,  I cannot get the right thing.
 > It needs manually adjusting. Is this a bug?
 > 
 > Thank you very very much.
 > Hope FreeBSD can evolve better and better.
 > 
 > Best regards.
 > 
 > Steven.
 
 Applications in FreeBSD don't generally talk to the mouse
 directly.  Instead, they talk to the mouse daemon via
 /dev/sysmouse, and the mouse daemon deals with the peculiarities
 of your particular mouse.  This allows both the X Window System
 and the console driver to use the mouse without conflicting.  But
 if moused isn't running, /dev/sysmouse won't work.  (Many people
 set up moused from sysinstall, so they don't have to worry about
 this step.)  I suppose you're right that it deserves mention in
 the handbook section on configuring X.
 
 --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml 2002/05/28 17:38:52    1.82
 +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml 2002/07/07 22:03:27
 @@ -378,7 +378,15 @@
           <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
           <keycap>Alt</keycap>
           <keycap>Backspace</keycap>
 -       </keycombo> simultaneously.</para>
 +       </keycombo> simultaneously.  If the mouse doesn't work,
 +       chances are you do not have &man.moused.8 running.
 +       <ulink url="install-post.html#MOUSE">Mouse settings</ulink>
 +       are discussed in the <ulink
 +       url="install-post.html">Post-installation</ulink> section of
 +       the Handbook.  If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you should
 +       also read <ulink url="../faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL">this FAQ
 +       entry</ulink> as you proceed to the next step of X
 +       configuration.</para>
  
        <indexterm><primary>XFree86 4 Tuning</primary></indexterm>

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