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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1674 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:52:59 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Installation, XFree86, and mouse... In-Reply-To: mykes@shell.portal.com's message of Fri, 19 Feb 1993 04:34:44 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb19044028@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <C2oI1y.J3B@unix.portal.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 10:40:28 GMT Lines: 33 In article <C2oI1y.J3B@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: My next move was to try to get XFree86-1.2 installed and running. I almost have Xconfig correctly working my display adapter, but not in 1024x768 mode. The startx script bombs out and says "Clock value does not match for 1024x768" or something like that... SO I deleted the "1024x768" from the line in Xconfig and it came up just fine in 800x600 mode. However, my Mouse didn't work. I have a Dell 486D/50 with a PS/2 mouse port (microsoft mouse) on the back. The man page for X386 says I can use ps/2 for mouse type, but it requires a "/dev/tty00" (tty00 is an example name) on the line in the Xconfig. I have NO idea what to use for the /dev. There is NOTHING interesting looking in /dev that looks like a mouse driver. You will need to recompile the kernel with an appropriate device driver for the ps/2 mouse. Johan Solhed <Johan.Solhed@lu.erisoft.se> posted a note recently saying he had ported the Linux PS/2 mouse driver to 386BSD. It includes a PS/2 to Microsoft protocol converter in the driver so XFree86 understands the mouse events. I haven't heard where it's available though. Also, I haven't been able to print anything, as there was no lpr device. I did MAKEDEV, and when I lpr README.BSD386, I get a file in the printer queue, but lpq tells me the printer is offline (but it isn't). ditto. You need to add lp0 to your kernel configuration file, reconfigure and recompile the kernel. There are several alternative parallel port device drivers available. Rich