From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 13:44:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA12728 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 13:44:52 -0800 Received: from relay4.UU.NET (relay4.UU.NET [192.48.96.14]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA12718 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 13:44:41 -0800 Received: from vivid.autometric.com by relay4.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyfqs19952; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 16:44:21 -0500 Received: from jester by vivid.autometric.com via SMTP (5.67a/920502.SGI) for @relay1.uu.net:questions@freebsd.org id AA24048; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 16:45:18 -0500 Received: by jester (931110.SGI/930416.SGI) for @vivid.autometric.com:questions@freebsd.org id AA12021; Sat, 4 Mar 95 16:45:17 -0500 From: "Brian Sletten" Message-Id: <9503041645.ZM12019@jester.autometric.com> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 16:45:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.1.0 22feb94 MediaMail) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy. I just installed FreeBSD 2.0 last night and had a question about mouse support. When I tried kicking off X via startx, it complained about /dev/mouse not being configured. Do I need to rebuild the kernel for this one? If so, (heck, even if not), could you just give a really quick overview on this. I'm pretty sure that I know what to do but I've never done it. Is it basically: 1) Modify a COPY of one of the existing config files(GENERIC, etc.). 2) config new file 3) go up a directory or two (to force libkern to be built) and doing make depend and then make? 4) Move the old /kernel to something like /kernel.old and the new one to /kernel. 5) Reboot. ?? 2.0 seems to have a lot of thought behind it (the installation was great -- although it hung during the extraction of X -- also, I can't seem to be able to just rerun /sbin/sys_install without having to respecify new mount points etc. I ended up just copying the X directory hierarchy from /file_sys/usr/X11R6 off the CD) Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton for a brilliant alternative! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Brian J. Sletten bsletten@autometric.com Ph. (703) 658-4178 (O) 2905 Wickersham Way, #202 (703) 207-9377 (H) Falls Church, VA 22042 Higdon's Law: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=