Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :(

[Denny White]

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

> --- Denny White <dennyboy at cableone.net> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm writing is very basic, but I just got an answer
>> to a question where I'd forgotten a very basic thing, so
>> don't get insulted. I may be way off base, being a relative
>> newbie, but if so, it'll at least probably get a quicker
>> response from somewhere else. :)
>
> First off Denny, thanks for answering my email for help.  Here goes..
>>
>> 1) Are you still running GENERIC kernel?
>
> YES
>
>> 2) Do you have /dev/psm0?
>
> YES
>
>> 3) Do you have, in /etc/rc.conf
>>
>>     moused_enable="YES"?
>
> Yes, manually entered it.
>
>> 4) Do you have, in your kernel config file,
>>
>>     # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
>>       device		psm		# PS/2 mouse
>
> YES
>
>> 5) Do you show something like this in dmesg?
>>
>>     psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>>     psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>>
>
> Yes, actually here is what it says:
>
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
>
>> 6) I know when you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X will
>>     still probe & try to come up with a working solution,
>>     but as to where it stores it's settings, unless in the
>>     afore mentioned file, I don't know.
>>
>
> I'd love to see the file it generates for X looks "great" when I leave
> it alone and startkde with no files.
>
>> 7) And if, after running without an xorg.conf file, it does
>>     have one it generated, does it have anything like this?
>
> I can't seem to find the one it's using, here are the results of a
> seach I did.  I had one file in my home directory from another machine
> but that file is not named valid for use, here is the seach results.
>
> liam# find / -name "xorg.c*"
>
> /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg
> /usr/home/wiliweld/xorg.conf.new
>
>>
>> # Identifier and driver
>>
>>      Identifier	"Mouse1"
>>      Driver	"mouse"
>>      Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
>>      Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
>>
>> 8) There have been other posts about xorg.conf problems
>>     recently. As I said, if you don't configure it yourself,
>>     it'll try to probe & come up with something. I guess it's
>>     having trouble with your mouse, though, which, btw, you
>>     didn't mention what kind of mouse. Did you check the hardware
>>     compat list?  Hope some of this helped.
>
> The mouse I'm using works fine in another 32bit 5.4 machine and here is
> the seach path results:
>
> [root at bsd ~]-> find / -name "xorg.c*" -print
> /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/xorg.cf
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig/xorg.cfg
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg
> /root/xorg.conf.new
>
> And inside the last file there is the mouse settings of:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>        Driver      "mouse"
>        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> EndSection
>
> I'll keep hacking Denny, thanks
>

Sorry couldn't have been of more help. I almost
fell asleep here, reading the man page on Xorg.
At this point, that's my best suggestion. Hope
you get it fixed.
Denny White


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