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5. Configuring X for Your Hardware

The /etc/X11/XF86Config file tells the X server what kind of monitor, video card and mouse you have. You must create it to tell the server what specific hardware you have.

You'll need info on your hardware:

The recommended way to generate an XF86Config file is to use the xf86cfg utility. The xf86config text utility is still there for the (few) cases where xf86cfg can't be used. Also, there is a sample file installed as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.eg, which can be used as a starting point.

For details about the XF86Config file format, refer to the XF86Config(5) manual page.

Once you've set up a XF86Config file, you can fine tune the video modes with the xvidtune utility.

5.1. About mouse configuration

XFree86 4.2.0 has support for the mouse driver included in the wscons console driver introduced by NetBSD 1.4. Specify ``wsmouse'' as the protocol and ``/dev/wsmouse0'' as the device in /etc/X11/XF86Config if you're using NetBSD 1.4 or later with a PS/2 mouse.

For older releases, the NetBSD pms mouse driver handles PS/2 style mice as Busmouse. Specify the protocol as ``busmouse'' in the mouse section of your XF86Config file if you're using a PS/2 mouse with NetBSD 1.3 or former releases.

Only standard PS/2 mice are supported by this driver. Newest PS/2 mice that send more than three bytes at a time (especially Intellimouse, or MouseMan+ with a wheel) are not supported by NetBSD 1.3 and former releases.

See README.mouse for general instruction on mouse configuration in XFree86.


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