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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help, My mouse doesn't work (X HP Vectra)
Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:02:58 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

> 	Problem solved!!!! Turned out that I wasn't aware that FreeBSD
> kept it's XF86Config file in /etc.

That's not FreeBSD, it's a generic XFree86 feature.  If the file is
found as /etc/XF86Config, this one is used, otherwise it falls back to
look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/.

-- 
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. ;-)