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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:39:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gil Perez <gperez@easynet.fr>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X FreeBSD configuration
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814003729.2059m-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970811094350.006876d8@mail.easynet.fr>

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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Gil Perez wrote:

> I could not installed succesfully X on FreeBSD. At least for two
> reasons :
> 
> The mouse device. I have a PS/2 mouse. I shoul enable the psm0
> in the kernel configuration menu. I tried to rebuild the kernel
> but i have still the message "psm0 : disabled , not probed
> when i boot.

If you rebuilt the kernel, the 'disabled' keyword on the 'device psm0' is
still there.  If you boot with the '-c' option to the Boot: prompt you can
re-enable the device.

> 
> When i try to run "startx", i have a message like that :
> "ELF binary, type not known, xinit : server error. 

You probably installed the Linux versions of X and not the FreeBSD
versions.  While the X versions may work, the FreeBSD ones are going to 
do a lot better. The FreeBSD versions are on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org in
/pub/FreeBSD/x.x.x-RELEASE/XF86xx, depending on what version of FreeBSD
you have.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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