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 -- Fortune: You will be attacked next Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. by six samurai sword wielding purple fish glued to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Oh, and have a nice day! -- Bryce Nesbitt '84