From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 23:20:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1B037B41B for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1640C28B38; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:20:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:20:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Beauford Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: XF86Config - HELP!!! In-Reply-To: <000001c1de0a$d5130fc0$6401a8c0@p1> Message-ID: <20020407030551.B16946-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Beauford wrote: I apologize if I seem cynical and completely unhelpful but... > This can't be this hard. I have run XF86Config at least 200 times and Apparently it *can* be this hard, and in some cases (mine) harder. I've run various xf86cfg/XFree86 -configure/xf86config etc utilities to get XFree86 to work on my ATI All in Wonder 16mb AGP and Dell M781p probably 200^200 times >;-( grrrrr > have tried combination after combination, and I can't even get the damn > mouse to work (Logitec 3 button serial). Now now... before you jump into X do what I did - read various handbook pages at www.freebsd.org (you can search the handbook, full text is online and far more useful and clueful than manpages when starting out as a sysadmin! Section 11.4 of the x.html document may be a good place to start? From the command `man moused` we learn: intellimouse Microsoft IntelliMouse protocol. Genius Net- Mouse, ASCII Mie Mouse, Logitech MouseMan+ and FirstMouse+ use this protocol too. Other mice with a roller/wheel may be compatible with this protocol. logitech Logitech mouse protocol. Note that this is for old Logitech models. mouseman or intellimouse should be specified for newer models. But most likely `moused -t auto /dev/....etc` would be the way to go for the '-t' type of mouse. After installing FreeBSD 4.3 from CDROMs (I'm now on 4.5-RELEASE, since I upgraded via FTP and would definitely recommend to everyone with high bandwidth to simply make bootable floppies and install the OS over FTP for free :) but anyway where was I) my first order of business was DHCP, then mounting my old msdos "slice" since I vowed never to boot into Win98SR1 again, then getting moused to work, then sendmail/ssh, got my Soundblaster Live sound card and an mp3blaster audio player working in command line mode ... are you still there? *grins* NOW I'm trying [AND FAILING MISERABLY] to get X to work. And as you say, "it can't be this 'X'ing hard!" :) > I have a Celeron 366 with a SB16, SiS 6236 video card, and an older 14 inch MicroScan SVGA monitor and have put in the proper information when asked, so I don't have a clue. The biggest problem though is the mouse. Make sure you research online what make and model the monitor is, and find out the h-scan and v-scan ranges (in kHz). > Whenever I run startx it crashes with the lovely "no such file or directory" error about the mouse - which I don't understand, cause it is there. Could you provide the exact error message? This doesn't sound familiar. The fix I keep hearing about, by the way, is to edit the "XF86Config.new" file and change /dev/mouse to /dev/sysmouse but that would imply your mouse is working okay in the system console. > Can anyone shed light on what I might be doing wrong, 'cause I just don't see it. I have also tried setting the mouse up in sysinstall and it won't work there either. > Thanks Hope together we will find success one day SOON. And for what it's worth, while you are X-less, take the time to familiarize yourself with the [seeminly limitless] capabilities of FreeBSD in a text-only environment. You'll be a better sysadmin, by far, for it!! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message