I have not installed XFree on a FreeBSD system in a while. So my comments are perhaps a bit general. That being said, I checked my FreeBSD 4.4 setup, and there are the following items: %ls /dev/*mou* /dev/mouse /dev/sysmouse %ls -ltr /dev/*mou* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 24 2000 /dev/mouse -> /dev/sysmouse crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 128 Dec 20 09:28 /dev/sysmouse %ps -ax | grep mouse 226 ?? Is 0:00.00 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto In this case, I presume moused associates /dev/psm0 with /dev/sysmouse. Also, as I recall installing XFree on a NetBSD system, I could not get the auto configuration part of the Xserver to work as in generat a config file that worked. I used xf86config, which asks a zillion questions but generated a working config file eventually. I did look at the log file to verify that the X server was seeing the video card that I had, which in my case was my Presario Laptop, Trident Blade mumblefoo. Also, in the NetBSD case if I tried to bring the server up without a mouse, bad things happened. Hope this gives some clues...
