Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:34:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 Message-ID: <358.950812481@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:12:12 MST." <14508.14844.27563.348804@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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> I got to the step of "configuring X" (running X's GUI setup--I can't remember > its contrived name...), the mouse was completely frozen. Only when I used the > keyboard to tab over to the appropriate place, type "/dev/psm0," TAB off that > dialog and hit "a" (to apply the change) did the mouse respond. After I did > this, the GUI X config went perfectly. That's a well-known fact and something which is decribed in XFree86's annoying pop-up window about mouse behavior. You're just not reading again, son. :) > In the "novice" case, does sysinstall run moused? If so, does the X GUI Yes. > install look for /dev/sysmouse by default (I can't remember ... not near the Yes. > Yeah, that's all I did. I just chose the "GNOME+E" menu and it told me "I'm > installing things" and that was it. However, when I finished configuring the > system, rebooted, logged in as "me" and typed "startx" I got twm. There was n Ah, it only does it as root. For some reason the skeleton files still aren't being utilized properly and this is something I've still to investigate. It has, at least, always been this way. :) > Well, perhaps at the very LEAST we could put skeletons of what needs to be > set I don't disagree on this, I just see a lot of variance in opinion concerning "what needs to be set." As far as another release candidate is concerned, yes, most assuredly there will be at least one or two more. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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