From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 7 15:38:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970D337B4BC for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 15:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g47MbL532743; Tue, 7 May 2002 15:37:21 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:37:21 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Pete French Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experiences with XFree86-4 on 4.6-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20020507153721.A20305@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:28:50PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:28:50PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > As I request was made tthat people try this before the > release I thought I would give it a shot. So far the > experience has been mixed. It installed O.K. using the > packages, though configuring it proved to be less > easy than anticipated. kepping the old config file to hand and=20 > and fiddling with the parameters in the new file until they match > proved to be very necessary. But it seems to be up and running. >=20 > 2 questions remaining: >=20 > 1) How is it possible to make this work with moused ? I found on > two separate machines that I had to disable moused and tell > X to expect a PS/2 mouse on /dev/psm0. I am assuming there is > some setting by which I can tell it to use /dev/mouse, but I cant > work out what it is for the life of me. There is no /dev/mouse. This entry works for me in current: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "InternalMouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection > 2) Netscape does not seem to work properly at all. It renders pages > with fragments of them being white wityh thin vertical yellow > bars. This is a serious problem for me as it makes the machine > virtualy unusable for browsing the internet. Has anyone else seen this > effect at all, and is there any fix for it. I would do a net search, = but > as the browser isnt working thats not really practical! Have you tried a browser who's development is a bit less dead? :-) Konqueror and Mozilla are working pretty well here. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82FcgXY6L6fI4GtQRAsiLAJ41Q5cPRLXojWtch0Ko123ZlEuwDwCguZXZ EDJIjA6vAeEln3Nxza+l9os= =jWfV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message