4. Configuring X for Your Hardware

The /etc/X11/xorg.conf 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:

• Your mouse type, baud rate and its /dev entry.
• The video card's chipset (e.g. ET4000, S3, etc).
• Your monitor's sync frequencies.

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

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

4.1. About mouse configuration

X11R6.8 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/xorg.conf 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 xorg.conf 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.