From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 5:12:23 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 3588937B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viefep15-int.chello.at (viefep15-int.chello.at [213.46.255.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D837B43E5E for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ant@overclockers.at) Received: from Deadcell.ant ([212.17.108.240]) by viefep15-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20020713121217.MGJD1259.viefep15-int.chello.at@Deadcell.ant>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:12:17 +0200 Received: from Deadcell.ant (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6DCCG5Q027936; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:12:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ant@Deadcell.ant) Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6DCCB5T027935; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:12:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:12:10 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user woes Message-ID: <20020713121210.GA644@Deadcell.ant> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020712104740.00b127d8@uclink.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712104740.00b127d8@uclink.berkeley.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:54:58AM -0700, chris wrote: > >> 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) > I think that should be mount -t msdos /dev/ad4s5 /mnt rather than /dev/ad0s5. > > > >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" First you would have to kill the moused processes running of course, perhaps you forgot that? And maybe this is a redundant question, but do you have the whole USB support options in your kernel config for the kernel to support USB? > >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. Hm this is just what I use on my laptop and it works pretty well. 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