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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: XFree86 woes on HP Vectra Message-ID: <stanbDzALpn.ADp@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <stanbDz8tHD.KAu@netcom.com> <326260E6.41C67EA6@panoramix.rain.fr> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 01:05:46 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: stanb@netcom19.netcom.com Tom Fischer <tfischer@panoramix.rain.fr> writes: >Hello, >Have you reconfigured your kernel to use your PS/2 mouse? If you >haven't, your x-windows will choke and your system will reboot >shortly after you launch X. This gentelman was the first, and so far only person to corectly diagnose the probelm. I apprecaie this very much. I also appreciate all the other helpful sugestions. At this point I can start X without crashing my machine. Unfortunatley the mouse doesn't *work* , it just doesn't crash the machine. Yes I changed the link to /dev/mouse to what I think is the correct device for a PS/2 mouse. Anyone have any good sugestiosn here ? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.