Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:40:18 -0400 From: "Lei Luo" <lluo@eecis.udel.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows Message-ID: <002901c378a4$e9d584c0$17850480@D4T7J231>
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Hi, everyone, I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed Free= BSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I tried to = configure mouse and X windows, I had big problem. As instructed in the handbook, I configured the type and port of the mouse = (PS2, so I used the default). But after I enabled it, I would be in one of = two situations.=20 In the first situation, the background of the screen turns to blue and I ca= nnot see if the mouse cursor moving. I could not see the dialog any more. S= ometimes, if I just pressed enter, I could go back the previous screen, but= having a blue background now. More commonly, the system was just stuck the= re and the keyboard was locked. At this time, I had to turn off the power t= o shutdown the computer. In the second situation, the background was OK. But the mouse cursor was tw= inkling on the screen. In addition, the mouse cursor had a strange shape, n= ot rectangular, but just like some unprintable character displayed on a DOS= screen. Does anyone know what is wrong here and how to fix the problem? If I skipped this step and tried to configure X windows directly, of course= , the system warned me that I hadn't configured the mouse and asked me to g= o back to configure it. My computer is a Gateway 2000 desktop with 200 Intel Pentium II processor. = Very old so I used to run Linux on it. Thank you! P.S., I didn't see the kernel configuration menu. Is it removed from FreeBS= D 5.x? Also, when I tried to reboot or shutdown the computer with "reboot" = or "shutdown" commands, my computer was stuck instead of reboot or shutdown= . At that time, the power button on the computer could not work. I had to t= urn off the power switch on the wall. Does anyone have this problem, too?
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