usb mouse is detected by fbsd 7 but not X

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 26, 2008 6:34:37 PM -0700 Chip <chip at wiegand.org> wrote:

> I ran update.locatedb, twice, and ran locate xorg.conf and locate
> xorg.conf.new. The only result was for xorg.conf found in
> /usr/local/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
>

You need to run, as root, "# Xorg -configure" and create an xorg.conf 
file.  Then follow the instructions on the screen and run X using the 
xorg.conf.new file that it creates to verify that X will work.

If it does, copy the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/xorg.conf and your mouse 
should work fine.

Paul Schmehl
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