Re: Custom ISO mouse help

Dario Freni wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:47:45PM -0600, Ben wrote:
>   
>> Hello, I'm chugging away at creating my custom CD with the FreeSBIE 2
>> toolkit and I must say you guys are doing a great job. The latest
>> problem that I'm running into is getting my mouse to work in X.org. I'm
>> able to boot into FreeSBIE and run "startxfce4" but the cursor doesn't
>> move when I move the mouse.
>>
>> I've tried this on several systems, and although the mouse works without
>> problems in the FreeSBIE beta ISO that you recently provided a torrent
>> for, I can't get the mouse to work with a custom CD. I've looked and
>> "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" is identical for both the beta ISO and the one I
>> create.
>>
>> These are the extras that I've included in my freesbie.conf file:
>> EXTRA="adduser xconfig sound etcmfs rootmfs"  Other than that I'm just
>> including a PKGFILE variable, everything else is up-to-date CVS. Am I
>> missing an extra or something else?
>>     
>
> In our xorg configuration we use /dev/sysmouse, which is the
> pseudo-device managed by moused(8). So add:
>
> moused_enable="YES"
>
> to your rc.conf. You can use customroot plugin to include this (and
> other) files automatically at build.
>
> Bye,
> Dario
Thank you, that worked perfectly. I now have my mouse working and am
getting menus into XFCE. I appreciate your help.

Ben
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