From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 18:18:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA27100 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtigwc03.worldnet.att.net (mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA27095 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:17:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOCALNAME ([207.147.168.211]) by mtigwc03.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA16060 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:14:00 +0000 Message-ID: <330D13F6.558B@worldnet.att.net> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:18:14 -0800 From: "Jeffrey J. Ayres" Organization: independent X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: command to vwm? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Thank you for the tip concerning recompiling. However I'm still having problems. For a fleeting moment I was able to get both the display manager and the windows manager to work. The mouse worked fine with the window manager, for instance changing the size of the window and moving it on the screen. However in order to log off I needed to cold boot the system(control-alt-delete did not allow me to reboot). The command I used to enable the display manager was to start the display manager during the boot edit /etc/ttys ttys "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" xterm on secure I intentionally left out the -nodaemon command. I tried duplicating the above command, and making sure the changes were read with kill -1 1 Each time the display manager allows login though will not allow input in the frameless xterm window. The cursor isn't filled in. Both the startx and xinit commands put two windows on the screen, a frameless xterm window and a framed xterm window. The framed window occupies about 1/5 of the right side of my 14" monitor. The remainder is the frameless window. Keyboard input into the framed window is possible, though the pointer/mouse does doesn't appear. The framed window responds to the command exit. What I would like is to enable the mouse it is much more convenient then having to learn 30-40 different commands just to position the window. I have checked the kernel config file and the xfree86 config file both confirm the ps/2 mouse "/dev/psm0". The kernel config file lists a conflict, yet states conflict allowed, the conflict is with syscons console driver (psm0 is at port 0x60-63, scd0 is at port 0x60-0x6f). However since both the mouse and keyboard were functional I doubt if the problem is a result of the conflict. Rather it is probably my ignorance of the proper commands to start xfree86. Any hints on how to enable the mouse? Oh yeah and I also tried redirecting the output to a file using the command startx 2>&1 > /tmp/startx.log with the result of opening the framed and frameless windows, still no mouse. I give up anybody got any cheese? Jeff