Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:06:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X, No Mouse, Again, Again, Again.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317093755.665A-100000@localhost>
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Hi, All: [P133, three-button mouse on cuaa1/sio1/COM2 set to Mouse Systems (yes), Diamond Stealth64 Video 2001 w/ 1 MB of memory (yes, 1MB the card is over 2 years old, this is how it came). It all works in Linux, so the hardware is OK.] My problem: About a week and a half ago I did a reinstall of FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a Friday night. It went fine, and I got X up and running, mouse working, etc. VERY cool; very happy. I left the machine running and returned to it Sunday night/Monday morning--didn't touch the machine in the meantime--and X crashed when I tried to startx. Now, startx _had_ worked on Friday. Somehow X got hosed with no input on my part. Strange? Since that time I have been unable to get X to behave again. I have reinstalled both /etc/rc.conf and /etc/XF68Config, the latter numerous times. I can get X up with the mouse in /etc/XF86Config set as /dev/sysmouse, but there is no mouse movement at all. Trying to start X with the mouse as anything but /dev/sysmouse causes X to crash and I have to do a control-alt-delete. With /dev/sysmouse X comes up looking dandy, just no mouse input at all. The cursor appears in the center of the desktop, looking very pretty, but will not move at all. I can only get to configure /etc/XF86Config via xf86config or xf86config in /stand/sysinstall; XF86Setup or XF86Setup via /stand/sysinstall crashes or just returns me to the command line. I know from the past that if I can't get XF86Setup to work and get the mouse working within it, then X and the mouse will not work. All this seems to indicate that there is a problem with another configuration file beside /etc/XF86Config. Where should I look for this file? The advice I have found in the archives, and that I have received in the past all discusses only /etc/rc.conf and /etc/XF86Config. In /etc/rc.conf I have moused turned off, but as I said above, X crashes with the mouse set to anything I can think of but /dev/sysmouse (i.e., /dev/cuaa1, /dev/mouse, /dev/sio1). I apologise for a long email on an old topic, but it really is quite frustrating. X in FreeBSD is a little problematic, or so it has been for me; I got it running in 2.2.2, but after several reinstalls--suddenly one time it just worked, and I couldn't think of anything different I had done that time. I would like to go on to something else. Problems with getting X and mouse to work got old a long time ago. Thanks, people. Chris Booth ___________________________ Christopher J. Booth cbooth@onyx.interactive.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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