From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 2:45: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C5E37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38DCC43E6E for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 32763 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 09:44:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 09:44:41 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8FEBD2FDAB2; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:44:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:44:37 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: leegold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X will not start as root - need help Message-ID: <20021024094437.GA29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: leegold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021024010752.5D630EA99@server2.fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021024010752.5D630EA99@server2.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a Genius NetScroll, but it should work with your mouse just fine. # leegold@fastmail.fm / 2002-10-24 01:07:52 +0000: > 1. > $ grep mouse /etc/rc.cont > moused_enable="YES" if you haven't tinkered with /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which you should not), you're fine here. > 2. > $ dmesg > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 > > 3. > my x config. file: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" s/MouseSystems/auto/ (replace "MouseSystems" with "auto") there were many people on the lists (including myself) with this problem. the shared secret seems to be that the only working combination to get mouse to work is moused_type="auto" in /etc/rc.conf (it has this value by default) Option "Protocol" "auto" in /etc/X11/XF86Config go figure. > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > > Option "ClearDTR" > Option "ClearRTS" erm, these are something special needed for MS mice, right? (haven't found anything in either XF86Config(5) or XFree86(1). > EndSection oh, btw, two nitpicks: 1) the xf86config-generated XF86Config file is 5% configuration, 10% empty lines and 85% comments. that's fine for editing, but you sent quite an amount of junk to lots of people. getting rid of the noise is easy, so there's no point in avoiding it. i use this script for just this purpose: ------8<------ #!/bin/sh case $1 in "-s") pattern='s/#.*$//;/^[[:space:]]*$/d' shift ;; *) pattern='/^[[:space:]]*#.*$/d' ;; esac sed -E $pattern $1 ------8<------ put it in your ~/bin (I call it "decom"). 2) your mailer wraps lines when it shouldn't (could be a pilot error). that's not so much of a problem in this case, but could completely ruin the email if you were sending a patch. it will be better if you send files as attachments. let us know if the new setup works. -- If you cc me or take the list(s) out completely I'll most likely ignore your message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message