From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 10:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FF7314E3B for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 36771 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Jan 2000 13:20:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:20:15 +0000 From: George Cox To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help or direct to help Message-ID: <20000128132015.A36620@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <000801bf695a$6b0499e0$38794118@sshe1.sk.wave.home.com> <389142DA.1C92ACE2@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <389142DA.1C92ACE2@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:18:50PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27/01 23:18, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > 2) X-Windows failed to start due to an initialization problem with the > > mouse. > > I've had the same problem that seemed to be caused by the "moused" daemon > interfering with the X server's mouse configuration. Go to /etc/rc.conf, > and if you see anything related to "moused", comment it out or remove it. > Then try to start X again. If you want to use the mouse in both the console and X, you need to do something like the following steps. 1 -- set your mouse up correctly in rc.conf. These 3 lines will do the trick for most PS/2 mice. moused_enable="YES" moused_type="auto" moused_port="/dev/psm0" After setting this, you should 'kill 1' and press CTRL-D to come back up to multi user mode. 2 -- Ensure moused works OK and you can cut and paste between consoles. If it doesn't try step 1 again, possibly with different values. 3 -- set up your XFree86 configuration file to use the following mouse settings. The protocol should be auto or sysmouse, and the device must be /dev/sysmouse. The following settings work for XFree86 3.9.17 -- I haven't got XFree86 3.3.x. Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" 4 -- Start X. 5 -- Enjoy. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] Powered by SMP FreeBSD In god we're trussed http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message