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

If your serial mouse does not work try using kermit or tip to connect to the mouse serial port and verify that it does indeed generate characters.

The OpenBSD pms driver provides both ``raw'' and ``cooked'' (translated) modes. ``raw'' mode does not do protocol translation, so XFree86 would use the PS/2 protocol for talking to the device in that mode. ``Cooked'' mode is the old BusMouse translation. The driver runs in ``raw'' mode when using the /dev/psm0 device name.

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