Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:12:14 -0500 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Kris Wieschhaus" <ktrw25@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems using the GUI Message-ID: <54db43990603170712k52d24e0fv48881d385a3a198f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F4E2C109B78446DAC1D30DD2E40@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-F4E2C109B78446DAC1D30DD2E40@phx.gbl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 3/16/06, Kris Wieschhaus <ktrw25@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I've been using FreeBSD for about a month now as I will be presenting > it to my class in a couple of weeks. I am having a problem getting the > the Windows X System to work. I have been trying for the last 2 weeks > to get it to work. I have looked in the FAQ's section and the FreeBSD > Handbook, but I am still unsuccessful. > What version of FreeBSD (the output of "uname -a" would be informative)? How did you install X? As part of the initial install, from the installer? Or later, as a port or package? [...] > I went to the X.Org web site and came to the conlusion that it is a > problem with the Windows X System not "playing" with my mouse the way > it should. I have a USB mouse and I can move the cursor around the > screen. If you can move the cursor around on the text console, then you are running the mouse daemon (moused). You seem to have figured that out, but I don't understand why your xorg.conf was not already configured for a mouse. > > I have modified the /root/xorg.conf.new file for my mouse but was > still unsuccessful at starting the GUI I don't think /root/xorg.conf.new is a default config file. I think that if you are not explicitly specifying it when you start Xorg, you aren't using it. Try copying it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then run startx. How did you generate the initial config file? What happens if you run "Xorg -configure" (which IIRC should create a new /root/xorg.conf.new)? And, on the matter of terminology: "Windows" is a Microsoft trademark, so the word "Windows" isn't part of the name of the X system. The full name is "The X Window System, Version 11"; short versions are "X", "the X System", "X11", etc. - Bob
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?54db43990603170712k52d24e0fv48881d385a3a198f>