Question about USB mice and X-Windows

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

Phusion wrote:
> I have FreeBSD setup my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and can use
> X-Windows fine. I am using GNOME. The laptop starts up with GDM and
> then I go into GNOME. I have already gotten my mouse to work. I want
> to use my USB mouse so I plug it in while in GNOME but doesn't work.
> Also, USB along with USB mice are already compiled into the kernel.
> Also, I'm not using moused. Do I need to change my xorg.conf file? Let
> me know what I can do to use this USB mouse when I want after the
> computer is running X-Windows.

use
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "boolean"
  This  allows  the  server  to  start up even if the mouse device
  can't be opened/initialised.  Default: false.
in your xorg.conf (serverflag section - xorg.conf(5))

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Armin Pirkovitsch
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