From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 20:16:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B95837B41D for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4D02D0401; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:16:42 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g344Gf822841; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:16:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:16:41 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200204040416.g344Gf822841@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <20020403200100.A70658_rochester.rr.com@ns.sol.net> <20020403202433.C68910-100000_earl-grey.cloud9.net@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :( Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 [Posted and mailed] In article <20020403202433.C68910-100000_earl-grey.cloud9.net@ns.sol.net>, Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com writes: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, mpd wrote: > >> The sysmouse device should already exist. If it doesn't, MAKEDEV it. > > I have tried both editing the XF86Config.new file and `ln -s /dev/sysmouse > /dev/mouse` but am failing on both accounts, seemingly? If you haven't already overcome this obstacle, try this: Get the console pointer working. For me, it was as simple as putting moused_enable="YES" moused_flags="-3 -r high" in /etc/rc.conf. Then, in /etc/X11/XF86Config, in the "Core Pointer's InputDevice section", see that the options are set like this: Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" These tell the server to "adopt" the mouse daemon's device. Be sure that securelevels is set off (-1 or 0). Don't be mucking about with symlinking stuff in /dev; you just shouldn't have to if the OS is running right. FWIW, I installed XF86 4.2.0 from XFree86's FreeBSD binary distribution, and it works like a charm (albeit with a different video subsystem than yours). HTH, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message