Scribbling feverishly on April 03, Peter Leftwich managed to emit:
> prompt# whoami
> root
>
> prompt# xf86cfg
> {stuff happens, screen turns blank and crackly noises are heard, I do C-A-BS to crash the server}
>
> prompt# echo "A few seconds later" >> /dev/null ; ls -al /var/log/XFree86.8.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 36540 Apr 3 15:49 /var/log/XFree86.8.log
>
> prompt# wc -l /var/log/XFree86.8.log
> 690 /var/log/XFree86.8.log
>
> I have attached /var/log/XFree86.8.log (odd, I only have 8 and 0 in
> /var/log) and wonder
>
> [1] Why is this logfile necessarily 690 lines?! and
There's lots of information there, to be sure, but better too much
than too little.
> [2] Right off the bat, does it matter that this line:
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE-p1 i386 [ELF]
> ... does not say FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE as that is my OS?
No, probably not, but I'm not a FreeBSD expert. The real problem appears
to be the inability to open the mouse. As I'm not familiar with
FreeBSD's mouse naming nomenclature, I can't help you specifically,
but I did information in README.FreeBSD that may help. It begins with
"If you are running ``moused'' (see the man page for moused(8))
in FreeBSD versions 2.2.1 or later, you MUST specify SysMouse as
the mouse protocol type and /dev/sysmouse as the mouse device
name, regardless of the brand and model of your mouse.
[more stuff here]"
Kurt
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