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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: dabloodgod@aol.com (DABLOODGOD) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: V 2.1 "XFree86" Installation questions Date: 3 Jan 1996 09:45:19 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 29 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ce4pv$plp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: dabloodgod@aol.com (DABLOODGOD) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Ive gotten the CDROM installed and am working on getting X working. Have had some luck - but still have some problems 1) How do I get my Microsoft bus mouse ( Inport ) to work in X - As far as I can tell, the Kernel is correct - Interrupt 5 and I/O port addresses of 0x23c to 0x23f ( the defaults ). /dev/mse0 is mapped to /dev/mouse. The X config file says microsoft protocol - 2 buttons etc. When X starts, it says something about the mouse being 1200 baud. The mouse does move on the screen, but is very very erratic, and sometimes just seems to get lost.I assume that V2.1 supports the Microsoft bus mouse - does it - what am I doing wrong ? 2) The video display is not correct either, the login box is sort of 1/4 on the screen - ( rather than being centered on the screen ). I assume this means that the video mode stuff isn't working correctly. I have a ATI Mach64 w 2MBytes, Ive set up the monitor stuff to match my Nanao F550i. Any Ideas ? 3) Finally, as Im fooling with this, it would be really handy if I could use telnet from the other machine on my 2 machine lan, to login as root, in order to kill / shutdown or modify files, rather than having to reboot once X hangs up. Is there some incantation that allows root to login over the network ? ( I realize its a security compromise, but Ive only got 2 machines on the lan, they are right next to each other and there is no outside world connection ). Thanks for all of your work on V2.1 - its great. Dave Bloodgood.