On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:06:08 -1000, Open Slate wrote:
A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put
mouse_flags=-3
in /etc/rc.conf.
I always thought it was moused_flags (according to moused),
has this been changed, or is it just a typo?
On my old system, I had a setting
A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put
mouse_flags=-3
in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot find this documented anywhere. Section 4.5 of the
faq mentions this feature and refers to the moused man page, where we are
told to pass -3 to moused. Similar treatment in the handbook. Section
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:06:08AM -1000, Open Slate wrote:
A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put
mouse_flags=-3
in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot find this documented anywhere. Section 4.5 of the
faq mentions this feature and refers to the moused man page, where we
This is how I got 3-button to work, with middle-button scroll. In
/etc/rc.conf
moused_enable=YES
moused_flags=-V
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Since release 4.0 I have been using this statement in /etc/rc.conf
moused_flags=-m 2=3 to enable mouse copy and paste
function. I see in 8.x and 9.0 that there is no man page for it anymore
even though it still works correctly. The man page for moused has one
short sentence about vidcontrol
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 06:21:56PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole (KDE4)
sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click.
Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an application
running in a terminal emulator
On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote:
I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole (KDE4)
sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click.
Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an application
running in a terminal emulator
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:06:44AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote:
I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole
(KDE4)
sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click.
Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:28:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:06:44AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote:
I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole
(KDE4)
sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse
I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole (KDE4)
sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click.
I also notice the same in chrome, and it's even more likely there.
Why such basic feature fails intermittently?
8.2-STABLE amd64
Yuri
start
then your mouse and keybord should working.
Am 07.07.2011 09:31, schrieb Mubeesh ali:
Hi List,
I have freebsd 8.2 installed on a windows host with virtualbox and
have xfce4. From sysinstall i was able to enable and move the mouse.
But as soon as i do a startx it gets frozen(pointer
Hi List,
I have freebsd 8.2 installed on a windows host with virtualbox and
have xfce4. From sysinstall i was able to enable and move the mouse.
But as soon as i do a startx it gets frozen(pointer is visible at
center of the screen )
Freebsd# cat /root/xorg.conf.new
Section ServerLayout
--As of July 2, 2011 9:56:33 PM -0600, Warren Block is alleged to have said:
The T61 has both a touchpad and a trackpoint. Seems like on my T42, only
one works. Possibly there are settings for psm(4) or the synaptics
touchpad driver is needed.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Check your BIOS
Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on ThinkPad X61.
When I start the X, the TrackPoint is not recognized.
The mouse cursor don't move and the button clicks don't act.
My settings on xorg.conf is as follows:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option
El día Saturday, July 02, 2011 a las 02:59:44PM +0900, YOSHIDA Shigeru escribió:
Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on ThinkPad X61.
When I start the X, the TrackPoint is not recognized.
The mouse cursor don't move and the button clicks don't act.
My settings on xorg.conf
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Saturday, July 02, 2011 a las 02:59:44PM +0900, YOSHIDA Shigeru escribió:
Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on ThinkPad X61.
When I start the X, the TrackPoint is not recognized.
The mouse cursor don't move and the button clicks don't act
On 18/01/2011 09:31, David Demelier wrote:
Hello,
I bought a Logitech V470 bluetooth mouse for my laptop. I followed this
website to configure mine :
http://astralblue.livejournal.com/357664.html
It had worked correctly yesterday (when I setup everything) now nothing
happens, after the reboot
Hello,
I bought a Logitech V470 bluetooth mouse for my laptop. I followed this
website to configure mine :
http://astralblue.livejournal.com/357664.html
It had worked correctly yesterday (when I setup everything) now nothing
happens, after the reboot if I put the mouse in the association
/docs/html/aei.html
I've followed only parts of this thread, and there are multiple
problems. First is installing X on a server. Second is a KVM switch,
many of which are problematic. Next is that the KVM converts USB to
PS/2, which... well, maybe it's fine. Finally, a jumpy mouse problem
, which... well, maybe it's fine. Finally, a
jumpy mouse problem with moused on console screams that it's the
KVM, not moused or USB or xorg config.
Interesting that the mouse jumpiness has disappeared. I can
switch to - computers by KVM and no problem. I'm about
is USB only, or
to be more precise: At least the mouse is USB - no PS/2 handling in
between.
Finally, a jumpy mouse problem
with moused on console screams that it's the KVM, not moused or USB or
xorg config.
I'm not 100% sure about that. Your article located at
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:29:31 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I just noticed that in rc.conf is:
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Oct 13 08:03:06 2010
moused_port=/dev/ums0
moused_type=auto
moused_enable=NO
and yet the console mouse
moused_enable=NO
and yet the console mouse is present. Strange... .
Explaination: USB mice are handled by devd. So if the system
detects the presence of a ums device, devd remote-controls
moused to activate this mouse.
# The entry below starts moused when a mouse is plugged
moused_enable=NO
and yet the console mouse is present. Strange... .
Explaination: USB mice are handled by devd. So if the system
detects the presence of a ums device, devd remote-controls
moused to activate this mouse.
See also the entry in /etc/defaults/rc.conf:
moused_nondefault_enable=YES
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote:
Finally, a jumpy mouse problem
with moused on console screams that it's the KVM, not moused or USB or
xorg config.
I'm not 100% sure about that. Your article located at
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html states:
Other times
moused_flags=-z 4
moused_type=auto
I'm not sure that bit about PS/2 mice not being configured automatically
is true. I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2 mouse and my
/etc/rc.conf contains
moused_enable=NO
moused_nondefault_enable=NO
moused_type=NO
and X has no problem seeing
Dear William,
excellent! The patch you pointed me to works for me too. Thank you
so much for your help, I am going to send an email to the port
maintainers to see whether they can fix this in the ports tree.
very best
giuseppe
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, William Bulley w...@umich.edu
:
moused_enable=YES
moused_port=/dev/psm0
moused_flags=-z 4
moused_type=auto
I'm not sure that bit about PS/2 mice not being configured
automatically is true. I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2
mouse and my /etc/rc.conf contains
moused_enable
. In my case (where I took those lines
from) I had to specify additional flags to make sure some specific
functionality of THAT mouse runs properly.
I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2 mouse and my
/etc/rc.conf contains
moused_enable=NO
moused_nondefault_enable=NO
moused_type
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:48:07 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I didn't realize how nice a GUI can be until I discovered the
xterm! At any rate, my mouse+keyboard are both USB. Still not
working with X
Then you should check the typical (oh god!) HAL + DBUS
configured automatically, so type=auto is
sufficient in MOST cases. In my case (where I took those lines
from) I had to specify additional flags to make sure some specific
functionality of THAT mouse runs properly.
I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2 mouse and my
/etc/rc.conf
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better
off just having a service do my hosting; I am close to agreeing.
It it possible that you recently had mail problems? When fetchmail'ing
today's bunch
New issues below...
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:43:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better
off just having a service do my hosting; I am close
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:20:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I just looked at the handbook 2.10.10 Mouse Settings I am
running 7.2 on the server, not that old, but the text does not
match what I see on my sysinstall screen.
// cut and paste
off the
moused_enable, to moused_enable=NO. Didn't seem to do
anything...
Yes, sounds familiar...
It is to be interpreted as follows:
If you use a USB mouse, set moused_enable=NO, as the USB subsystem
will call moused with the correct settings automatically.
Correction -- it's
in the ports tree. Also, if this is the correct
fix, is there a reason why it hasn't been integrated in the ports yet?
thanks again
giuseppe
I am having a problem with xorg 1.7.5 and OpenMotif resulting in the
mouse being stuck in certain areas of the Motif windows that are
supposed to open dialog
dependency problems in the ports tree. Also, if this is the correct
fix, is there a reason why it hasn't been integrated in the ports yet?
thanks again
giuseppe
I am having a problem with xorg 1.7.5 and OpenMotif resulting in the
mouse being stuck in certain areas of the Motif windows
giuseppe
I am having a problem with xorg 1.7.5 and OpenMotif resulting in the
mouse being stuck in certain areas of the Motif windows that are
supposed to open dialog boxes when right-clicked. I noticed that
somebody else reported the problem already in this list, and that it
seems to have
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm lost. Aday ago when I rebooted my old Dell, the mouse wouldn't
work. A hour ago I got X booting on my server, but the same thing:
no mouse. I see the cursor, but it is frozen. The only place my
mouse works is on my linux
According to Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com on Mon, 10/11/10 at 10:57:
thank you very much for your reply, it does seem to be the same type
of bug. However, and I apologize for being dense here, it is not
immediate to me how to proceed practically to apply the patch from
within the
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:41:52 -0700
From: kl...@thought.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mouse problems
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I'm lost. Aday ago when I rebooted my old Dell, the mouse wouldn't
work. A hour ago I got X
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:41:52 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I'm including the dmesg output from the server. Is there a
mouse driver I can compile that will get the mouse working on my
two FreeBSD platforms?
This is not needed - the mouse driver is already
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:31:53PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:41:52 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I'm including the dmesg output from the server. Is there a
mouse driver I can compile that will get the mouse working on my
two FreeBSD platforms
#
This was to be expected. Check
# dmesg | grep psm
If no PS/2 mouse shows up, moused has nothing to connect to. Maybe
resetting (power-cycling) the KVM switch helps?
Then i dropped in your four line into /etc/rc.conf and rebooted.
A few lines before the prompt was the message that /dev
to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory
ethic#
This was to be expected. Check
# dmesg | grep psm
If no PS/2 mouse shows up, moused has nothing to connect to. Maybe
resetting (power-cycling) the KVM switch helps?
Then i dropped in your four line into /etc/rc.conf
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:14:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
This mouse is A USB type.
Okay, in THAT case, the system should recognize a USB mouse,
as /dev/ums. Check
# dmesg | grep ums
if a mouse is present. Then
# usbdevs -v
should also report
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:14:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
This mouse is A USB type.
Okay, in THAT case, the system should recognize a USB mouse,
as /dev/ums. Check
# dmesg | grep ums
if a mouse
on uhub4
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
ethic#
The mouse is detected. Good.
A problem that now comes to my mind is that switching from / to
the ethic machine might confuse the USB subsystem, as a device
disappears and later appears. Although USB is capable of hot plug,
the USB subsystem might
: rand Combo Free KVM, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 3 on uhub4
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
ethic#
The mouse is detected. Good.
A problem that now comes to my mind is that switching from / to
the ethic machine might confuse the USB subsystem, as a device
disappears and later
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:56:10 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i tried this remove on _this_ console; then buttoned over to
`ethic' [server], killed the moused that was running. Indeed it
was /dev/ums0! But the mouse was frozen, and afer I killed it,
gone
! But the mouse was frozen, and afer I killed it,
gone.
It seems that disconnect / reconnect (performed by the KVM switch)
causes some problems.
Then I tried your line and got the data stream. But
there was no mouse. ...
But if you moved the mouse, status messages appeared
I'm lost. Aday ago when I rebooted my old Dell, the mouse wouldn't
work. A hour ago I got X booting on my server, but the same thing:
no mouse. I see the cursor, but it is frozen. The only place my
mouse works is on my linux system. The KVM connections seem soild;
the only problem
William Bulley w...@umich.edu wrote:
See below for details of solution.
[...]
This problem is known (and fixed) in newer versions of xorg-server.
See this URL for details of the problem.
See below for details of solution.
- Forwarded message from William Bulley w...@umich.edu -
To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
From: William Bulley w...@umich.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400
Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE
(?!) to make sure HAL will
pick up the new setting. Next time, you will have to reboot in order
to make a mouse pointer position change visible. :-)
Thanks for all the suggestions. Here is where things stand:
I am still having the same problem since upgrading to 8.1-STABLE.
First, what has changed
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com on Wed, 08/25/10 at 11:03:
You are telling xorg-server to not use hald with the AutoAddDevices
line:
Section ServerFlags
Option AutoAddDevices off
Option DontZap false
EndSection
And the other option is already a
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, William Bulley wrote:
In my use of open-motif, I use and depend on mouse focus.
...
Nothing has changed. When I run open-motif, I still experience
the crippling loss of mouse focus when I enter the sequence
Shift/Btn3Click.
...
Shift Btn3Click window
For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
Optiplex 960. This combination has worked fine for the past year.
This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE.
I do this by doing a buildworld
On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote:
For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
Optiplex 960. This combination has worked fine for the past year.
This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January
According to jhell jh...@dataix.net on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:24:
On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote:
For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
Optiplex 960. This combination has worked fine
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, William Bulley wrote:
After building Xorg, as root, I ran the Xorg -configure command to
generate my xorg.conf.new file. Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I
felt no need to change anything in that file
knew how to use hald,
how would that solve my problem of the disappearing mouse pointer and
consequent loss of functionality of my window manager?
Regards,
web...
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William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu
72 characters width template
in order
to make a mouse pointer position change visible. :-)
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Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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what you mean by using hald. Assuming I knew how to use hald,
how would that solve my problem of the disappearing mouse pointer and
consequent loss of functionality of my window manager?
You are telling xorg-server to not use hald with the AutoAddDevices
line:
Section ServerFlags
will
pick up the new setting. Next time, you will have to reboot in order
to make a mouse pointer position change visible. :-)
By the way, configureing input options via hald doesn't work for me
X itself got flags from hal, write correct logfile about layout and options
(us+ru+typo),
keys for layout
Henry,
you may have installed xorg with the HAL-option on. If you want to try without
it go to the /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server. Use #make config, switch off
the HAL support and #make reinstall.
Cheers
herb langhans
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:54:03PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote:
I
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card,
this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
But it is important for me to press it into service.
I tried using a couple of Option lines in
I see:
Setting master
xclock: not found
Dropping master
While the root screen has:
drm0: Intel i845G GMCH on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
info: [drm] AGP at 0xf000 128NB
info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0
I have:
hald_enable=YES
in the boot up conf
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I see:
Setting master
xclock: not found
Dropping master
While the root screen has:
drm0: Intel i845G GMCH on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
info: [drm] AGP at 0xf000 128NB
I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card,
this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
But it is important for me to press it into service.
I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck.
so now my questions...
Will FBSD 7.3 make use of
On 4/4/10, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card,
this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
But it is important for me to press it into service.
I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no
the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I can't seem to get rid
of. For example, if I mouse to the address line in Firefox and begin typing
in a url, nothing happens until I move the mouse. Then, suddenly, what I
typed will appear in the address bar.
If I'm working in a shell, for example running
I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also upgraded
from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems to work fine
except the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I can't seem to get rid
of. For example, if I mouse to the address line in Firefox
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On 17/03/2010 16:22:17, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also
upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems
to work fine except the mouse. There is an irritating delay
On 03/17/10 12:22, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also
upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems
to work fine except the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I
can't seem to get rid of. For example, if I
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also upgraded
from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems to work fine
except the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I can't seem to get rid
of. For example, if I
to know what
the problem is so I can have some hand in trying to solve it.
Now on to the problem at hand.
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes (more
like several hours) ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding,
eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get
have some hand in trying to solve it.
Now on to the problem at hand.
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes (more
like several hours) ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding,
eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start
responding again. I
Resent: Originally sent over one hour ago.
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my
mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot
because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to
unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my
mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot
because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to
unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in
because it lost
I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on FreeBSD
8, however it isn't detecting my mouse. Any idea on how I can make that
happen? As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual box for
FreeBSD..of course that's assuming that would even help
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu wrote:
I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on
FreeBSD 8, however it isn't detecting my mouse. Any idea on how I can make
that happen? As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual
Mouse selection in both xfce4's Terminal and the FreeBSD console is a
bit touchy. Select a block, click in another window to paste, and...
it's now highlighted a block in the target window. Or maybe a whole
line.
Mouse speed and click-to-focus are fine the way they are, it'd just be
nice
, and a the FreeBSD Welcome screen I
could press enter
to skip the 10 seconds wait time.
Then the normal messages rolled over the screen, but I noticed among them:
usb1: host controller halted
ubub1: IOERROR
And saw that the red light of the optical mouse went out...
And at the selecting screen to select
and mouse directly
to the computer.
If there's a Legacy USB Support or similar option in the BIOS, disable
it. Or you could try booting with the keyboard disconnected, then
connect it after FreeBSD has started.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:22 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com
wrote:
--On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber
glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose this falls under the works for me category - I haven't
ever used HAL on FreeBSD.
I have, and I would
to be the way to go.
In the past, things were centralized in xorg.conf for all the
options that would be interesting to the X server: Screen
settings, fonts, mouse, keyboard. Now, those settings seem
to be non-existent (autodetected) or scattered around into
config files of different subsystems.
Getting
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:24:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com
wrote:
--On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de
wrote:
The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and
aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and
wisely
--On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de
wrote:
The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and
aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and
wisely chosen, so they usually don't cause problems, because
they don't assume something stupid, like
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files.
If they intended to use another than default english keyboard
layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already
too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe
there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout from the
2009/12/12 Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already
too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe
there's a mechanism in hal to
On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading? This forum has
been riddled with questions on why their hardware (mouse) has stopped
working and how to get it working again. If Microsoft had pulled a
bone-headed stunt
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote:
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to
make my mouse work in X again
Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote:
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to
make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of
fbsd since 2.2.6
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 ?
On Fri 2009-12-11 07:30:01 UTC-0500, Carmel (carmel...@hotmail.com) wrote:
It is really hard to push the merits of an operating system when you
have to give detailed instructions to the potential end user on how to
get a mouse to work, when all they have to do in a Win32 based system
Last
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading?
No, they were trying to upgrade a very old, static system (X11) to
support their users. One thing that had been lacking was any
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:48:36 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com replied:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading?
No, they were trying to upgrade a very old, static
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