freeBSD KDE problems

[eskimo]

Hello all: When I startx and KDE comes up, it's off center and the mouse dosn't show? The mouse deamon shows that it is working though, ummph... :confused: :confused:

[BMK1st]

Did you configure your mouse using /stand/sysinstall ? Maybe that will help.

And did you pick right protocol of mouse for XF86Config?

[dkeav]

need some more info about your mouse, and you can use xvidtune to adjust your X offset if, its more than your monitors adjustments can handle

if you have a USB mouse, the setup in freebsd is a little different, but none the less, its not that difficult to get working

[eskimo]

Hello all: Thanks for the replies. The problem continues. I chose PS2 as a mouse type and allowed the default Device name. The KDE continues to show up all garbled. Some of the right hand parts of the screen show up on the left, ect... still no mouse on the screen though? Do I have a problem with the video card selection process. I chose 322 (NVIDIA GeForce) and the correct amount of memory. I am a newbie to all of this so continue to go easy on me, lol...:confused: Oh, the screen adjustment does nothing with the KDE offset, moves the screen not the KDE displayed?:confused:

[je_fro]

This time don't choose PS/2, choose the freebsd one...it's called sysmouse or something like that. I think it's the secon option presented....

[moojuece]

make sure your mouse is /dev/sysmouse or you symlink it to /dev/mouse or /dev/psaux which ever your xf86config uses...also with my bsd install i had to set mouse protocol to auto instead of ps2

[eskimo]

Hello all: I finally got the mouse working along with Windowmaker. A lot of stuff appears to be missing, I.E: gimp, ect... Now on to the installation of the packages I need. Oh, where do I select the starting of KDE or GNOME when I "startx"?
Once again thanks for the input. Yours, eskimo...:D

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by moojuece
make sure your mouse is /dev/sysmouse or you symlink it to /dev/mouse or /dev/psaux which ever your xf86config uses...also with my bsd install i had to set mouse protocol to auto instead of ps2

You don't need to symlink it. /dev/sysmouse is what moused uses as its mouse device-- it pipes input through it for other programs to use. If you use moused, you configure it to detect the type of mouse (using /dev/psm0 for a PS/2 mouse), then you tell X to use /dev/sysmouse with the "Auto" protocol.

Originally posted by eskimo
Hello all: I finally got the mouse working along with Windowmaker. A lot of stuff appears to be missing, I.E: gimp, ect... Now on to the installation of the packages I need. Oh, where do I select the starting of KDE or GNOME when I "startx"?
Once again thanks for the input. Yours, eskimo...:D

You select what DE/WM you want by either editing ~/.xinitrc, or through ~/.xsession. If you use startx to start your X session, you'd use ~/.xinitrc. If you use a display manager, like xdm/gdm/kdm, you'd use ~/.xsession.

[bandwidth_pig]

Originally posted by eskimo
Hello all: I finally got the mouse working along with Windowmaker. A lot of stuff appears to be missing, I.E: gimp, ect... Now on to the installation of the packages I need. Oh, where do I select the starting of KDE or GNOME when I "startx"?
Once again thanks for the input. Yours, eskimo...:D

I have a sneaking feeling that your horizontal and vertical refresh rates on your monitor may have not been set correctly when you configured X? If you don't have the correct values in, your screen will be distorted. If your not sure what these values should be, you can check the documentation that came with your monitor or visit the manufacturers web site.

[eskimo]

Hello all: In reply, the Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates chosen where within the ranges given. I did not choose to set them at a specific number. I now have the settings: Horiz:79.976 Vert:75.025 @ 1280X1024 I am using a Samsung 955DF. I had no problems installing and setting up R.H 8.0, but then again.... This is a learning experience. Once again thanks to all the help given. Yours, eskimo...

[bandwidth_pig]

Originally posted by eskimo
Hello all: In reply, the Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates chosen where within the ranges given. I did not choose to set them at a specific number. I now have the settings: Horiz:79.976 Vert:75.025 @ 1280X1024 I am using a Samsung 955DF. I had no problems installing and setting up R.H 8.0, but then again.... This is a learning experience. Once again thanks to all the help given. Yours, eskimo...

Interesting. I have had problems in the past with X and have had to get fairly exact depending upon monitor. Perhaps that was just my bad luck. So essentially, your problem is your screen is a little off center then? I assume you tried adjusting the controls on your montior? I had a similar thing happen when I set up FreeBSD. I just needed to manually adjust some of my monitors settings and I was good to go. I know that seems like a stupid question, but it never hurts to try. As far as the missing software goes, that is easy to fix. Just:

cd /usr/ports

Then you can grep the INDEX file to find the directory of the software you wish to install. Change to that directory and

make (which will download and configure)
make install

You should be good to go there.