From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 22:56:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA20355 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA20349 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id IAA05625; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:55:34 +0300 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:55:34 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: syntax cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xfree86 configuration on a Compaq Presario CDS 524 In-Reply-To: <3214FC34.2781E494@eramp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, syntax wrote: > Hiya, > > I'm helping a young man in Australia try and get his X windows working > and was hoping you all could see if you could help. Here is the letter > I sent him. All he gets is a blank screen on running startx. > I don't know why the screen is blank, but your instructions are a bit off the course on the mouse setup: [snip] > > > 2. I'm not sure which mouse Compaq supplies. Look on the underside > > and see if it says Logitech. Logitech mice also always have 3 buttons. > > At this point it doesn't matter since we can fix this later and the > > most trouble it will cause is your mouse not working in X windows. I think Compaq sells Microsoft mice. However, your statement about Logitech is incorrect. DEC for one has always sold Logitech mice, and for the last 3 years or so they are all two-buttons. So there are 2-button Logitech mice. [snip] > > 5. For the device your mouse uses, I'm assuming that like most Compaq's > > your mouse is com1 and your modem is com2 so it should be /dev/ttyd0 I guess that like most modern machines it will have a mouse port. This would change the mouse configuration (and require a kernel build to configure the psm device). > Thanks in advance for any responses, I'd really like to see him > get the full pleasure of FreeBSD. > > syntax@eramp.net > I guess that's not an answe to your question, but once you do get a screen image out of it, I guess you'd like the mouse to work too... Nadav