7.0 installation problem

Daniel Bye freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org
Wed Jan 30 09:23:12 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:53:14AM -0500, FreeBSD User wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.0-Current for amd64, and I am having
> problems with my mouse and video card.
> 
> My hardware is as follows:
> 
> Gigabyte p35-ds3r motherboard
> Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (Q6600)
> NVidia 8400GS
> Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000 mouse
> Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
> 
> Problem 1:
> The mouse is not working at all.  When I look at the output of "dmesg",
> I see the mouse (ums0), however no movement.  I have gone into sysinstall
> and tried every available option under mouse configuration, but I can't get
> it to work.
> 
> Problem 2:
> I cannot get X started.  I get the following errors:
> 
> Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
> Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
> Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
> No drivers available

Try the following:

 # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers
 # make config

Are the relevant items for mouse, keyboard and the nv driver checked?
If not, check them and try reinstalling the drivers package.

HTH

Dan

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