From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 31 10:37:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from Amelia.bsdprophet.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638EB37B405 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scott@localhost) by Amelia.bsdprophet.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2VIcCq00709; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:38:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:38:12 -0600 From: Scott Corey To: Vikas Gandhi Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB Mouse in X11 Message-ID: <20020331183812.GA229@bsdprophet.org> Mail-Followup-To: Scott Corey , Vikas Gandhi , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000201c1d8e1$a7e4de80$f3002a18@cr478760a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000201c1d8e1$a7e4de80$f3002a18@cr478760a> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First off this isn't -questions. On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 01:26:58PM -0500, Vikas Gandhi wrote: > Hi guys! > > I first tried installing FreeBSD from the mini.iso, however I couldn't > get XF86 working, so I tried the full install iso. I've installed that makes since, it's not on the mini.iso. > XF864.1 and run XFree86 -configure. It's detected my radeon, but now I fine, this puts a file into your /root (You did run it as root, right?) of XF86Config.new. Did you follow the instructions in the handbook to complete the configuration process? > get 2 errors, one is that it says I only have 256kb of video memory and > it cant load the screens (I've tried changing this with xfree86 > configure) and it can't detect my mouse. I've also tried XF86Setup and XF86Setup is ONLY for XFree86 3.3.6, it WILL not work with 4.x versions. > put /dev/usbmouse as my mouse.but to no avail. If anyone knows what to > do to fix either problem or both, please help me :-) > So doing all of this has done nothing, right? I would recommend that YOU do a LITTLE checking on the handbook, and I'll be nice and give you the url. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > Thanks! > -Vikas -- Scott B. Corey scott@bsdprophet.org irc.openprojects.net #bsdprophet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message