Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:01:18 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: chris <neo@uclink.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user woes Message-ID: <20020712090118.GA295@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020712013620.00af8478@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:41:59 -0700
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> From: chris <neo@uclink.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: new user woes
>
> Hello, two things,
>
> 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.
This is just a guess: does the device exist in /dev?
> Second, I'm having difficulty getting my mouse to work properly in X. It
> works in the console, but when I load either kde or gnome, the moment i
> move the mouse the slightest bit, it jumps to the topleft corner of the
> screen, sometimes opening a menu on the desktop. It does not respond to
> mouse clicks, and moving the mouse does not do much. It is a USB MS
> Intellimouse optical. I have also tried using a generic ps/2 mouse, but I
> get the same error.
You most probably need to a) turn off moused b) set the protocol to
"auto" in both moused and x. Look in the archives.
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