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5. 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:

The recommended way to generate an xorg.conf file is to use the xorgcfg utility. The xorgconfig text utility is still there for the (few) cases where xorgcfg can't be used. Also, there is a sample file installed as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg, which can be used as a starting point.

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.

5.1. About mouse configuration

X11R6.8 has support for the mouse driver included in the new wscons console driver introduced by OpenBSD-2.9. Specify ``wsmouse'' as the protocol and ``/dev/wsmouse0'' as the device in /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you're using OpenBSD-2.9 or later with a PS/2 or USB mouse.

See README.mouse for general instruction on mouse configuration.


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