Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:54:58 -0700 From: chris <neo@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user woes Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712104740.00b127d8@uclink.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020712132224.GA372@Deadcell.ant> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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At 03:22 PM 7/12/2002 +0200, you wrote: >On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:41:59AM -0700, chris wrote: > > Hello, two things, > > > > One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > > FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t > msdos > > /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error. > >Could you post the output of `mount`? I've once had troubles too with >mounting fat32 partitions since the slice-numbering often turns out to be >different from what you might expect. the partition i want to mount isn't listed in mount, but here's the output anyway: /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad4s1f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1g on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) also, fdisk displays the slice i'm having trouble mounting as ad4s2, which i've also tried to mount, but I get an 'Invalid argument' error if I do so. > > Second, I'm having difficulty getting my mouse to work properly in X. It > > works in the console, but when I load either kde or gnome, the moment i > > move the mouse the slightest bit, it jumps to the topleft corner of the > > screen, sometimes opening a menu on the desktop. It does not respond to > > mouse clicks, and moving the mouse does not do much. It is a USB MS > > Intellimouse optical. I have also tried using a generic ps/2 mouse, but I > > get the same error. > > > >For moused in console use: >"moused -p /dev/ums0" >or set the appropriate values in /etc/rc.conf. 'moused -p /dev/ums0' in console returns a 'Device busy' error. My lines for the mouse in /etc/rc.conf are as follows, however: moused_port="/dev/ums0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" >For X use: >"Options" "Protocol" "Auto" >"Options" "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" >see `man 5 XF86Config`. > >This should get the USB mouse working in both X and the console. Those are the the settings I'm already using...but it still doesn't work. >HTH >regards >-- > Andreas "ant" Ntaflos > ant@overclockers.at > Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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