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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 woes on HP Vectra Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:04:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5411pr$dr9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbDz8tHD.KAu@netcom.com> <326260E6.41C67EA6@panoramix.rain.fr> <stanbDzALpn.ADp@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > 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 ? Have you enabled it in the kernel? You didn't write which FreeBSD version you're running, for versions <= 2.1 you need to rebuild a new kernel with the `psm0' device. For 2.1.5 or recent 2.2 SNAPs, simply boot with -c, and enable psm0 in UserConfig. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)