Xorg and mouse....

[Bomgardner,Jon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:FreeBSD at keyslapper.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:17 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Xorg and mouse....
> 
> On 12/14/04 01:59 PM, Bomgardner,Jon  sat at the `puter and typed:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > I tried typing in 'xev' but got the error:
> >
> > xev: unable to open display ""
> >
> > I tried the man page on xev and did find the -display option but I
don't
> > know what to put after that as the parameter. It doesn't give any
> > examples.
> 
> Probably something like -display :0.0
> although you'll want to call:
> xhost local:
> 
> before doing so.  This assumes you're on the latest xorg of course.


Tried this but got the same error running xhost: unable to open display
""

> 
> > When I run xdm from the > prompt I get:
> >
> > Shared object "libutil.so.3" not fund, required by "xdm"
> >
> > I assume this means I'm missing a file. After tracking some stuff
down I
> > found it should be in /usr/lib but it's not there. Any idea where I
can
> > get it?
> 
> That indicates a whole other problem.  You must have linked to an
> older version of libutil when you built xorg.  I have
> /lib/libutil.so.4, not 3.
> 
> BTW, what version of Xorg *are* you running?  What version of FreeBSD?
> I must have missed it in your previous messages.
> 

I'm currently running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC
2004
GENERIC kernel

Xorg's header when starting says:

Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
..<cut OS info>..
Build Date: 16 October 2004

Could the error mentioned have happened because I manually installed
XFree86 4.4 (based on X11 6.6) in trying to get *something* to work on
this system?  Could this also be causing some of the other problems I've
been having?  If so, how do I remove XFree?

Thanks,
Jon

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