This is probably *too_far* off-topic for this list to get any useful replies, but I'll ask anyway, both because I'm subscribed here and because a more-appropriate list is not obvious to me.
In qemu I'm running FreeBSD-10.1 (x86_64) to test how my texlive test scripts work there (blame systemd - the more it concentrates on "only linux", the more I'm interested in what might be similar systems). Unfortunately, although I've installed xfce, Xorg, and texlive via the binary 'pkg' system [ to my surprise, xfce did not pull in all of Xorg, in particular I did not have 'startx' ], I cannot get a working mouse on the desktop. That somewhat limits my attempts to read the PDFs I've created, except by scp'ing them back to a linux system. So far, I've added hal (!) to the things which get started (that is _so_ old), as well as dbus, and installed vmmouse - but none of that has made the slightest difference, in qemu's desktop only the keyboard works. Unfortunately, my google foo for this is poor, all I can find are links for running qemu _on_ FreeBSD. Any suggestions, please ? I'll also note that FreeBSD-10.1 was not exactly what I expected - I could not download the docs (probably, I picked a time when every source was either busy, or offline while doing its housekeeping), but those which google finds suggest that /bin/sh is a POSIX Bourne shell (some say it is the almquist shell), but my attempts to specify a UTF-8 variant of LC_ALL, using 'export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8) and to use VARNAME=$(command) in /bin/sh failed weirdly. Using cshell syntax (and yes, I agree with everyone who says that is a poor substitute for /bin/sh) appeared to work. Fortunately, after I had installed the above packages I found bash-4.3.30 was in /usr/local/bin so my configure script sort-of ran with '/usr/bin/env bash' - I have now removed the sed -i invocations which needed GNU sed (BSD sed -i is *different*), and it seems to all run. But it would be nice to try FreeBSD's Xorg PDF readers, and for that I _need_ a working mouse. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
