5. Configuring X for Your Hardware

The /etc/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:

• 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 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

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.

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 ``3D'' roller) are not supported yet.

XFree86 4.0 also has support for the mouse driver included in the new wscons console driver introduced by NetBSD 1.4. Specify ``wsmouse'' as the protocol and ``/dev/wsmouse0'' as the device in /etc/XF86Config if you're using NetBSD 1.4 with wscons.

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