Hello everyone. After a bit of a wrestle, I installed my first FreeBSD
6.1 server on a PIII 733MHz with 512 Megs of RAM on a 6.5 Gig slice
(a:/, b:swap, d:/var, e:/tmp, f:/usr). I got X Windows working after a
little bit more struggle - I now have Afterstep, WindowMaker and fvwm
working for me.
The single biggest problem I have faced with this installation is
configuring my mouse. I have an old 3-button Logitech serial mouse. It
is not hard to replace it with a new PS/2 or USB roller mouse. But if
I had to do that, I won't be here and I would not care about FreeBSD.
On 5.4, I remember the serial port to which my mouse was connected was
called /dev/cuaa0. Now it is /dev/cuad0. I find this a little odd. In
any case, when I start my X Window session, for a while my mouse is
responsive and moving around perfectly. After a few inches of moving
here and there, it stops responding and that's it. I have tried doing
a:
cat /dev/cuad0
from the console and moved the mouse - it spews gibberish which is
fine. But it does not budge a bit on my X Window session. I have to
stop and restart and everytime it's the same story, except that it
moves briefly before freezing.
Some points:
1. I can oftentimes see the mouse pointer on the text consoles just
after booting, but it does not move.
2. My moused runs with:
moused -t microsoft -p /dev/cuad0
I enabled ChordMiddle at the time of xorgconfig so that's enabled in
/etc/X11/xorg.config.
Cheers,
Andy
I have attached my xorg.conf file.
What I have noticed is that my text-console mouse does move now when
the pointer is visible but sometimes the pointer isn't visible on the
text console.
Second, in X Window, the first time it starts when I initially start
moving the mouse, the mouse moves freely for a while and after about
15 seconds of moving freely, it freezes. No response at all.
If I go back to the console and try:
cat /dev/cuad0
I get the expected gibberish. Sometimes this restores movement to the
pointer when I get back to X Window. But usually this makes no
difference. Restart xdm may restore some movement, again for a few
seconds and then the mouse freezes again.
# File generated by xorgconfig.
#
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# The X.Org Foundation BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
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#
# **
# Refer to the xorg.conf(5) man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **
# **
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **
#
Section Module
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Loaddbe # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection extmod
Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Loadtype1
#Loadspeedo
Loadfreetype
#Loadxtt
# This loads the GLX module
#Load glx
# This loads the DRI module
#Load dri
EndSection
# **
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **
Section Files
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath
