From owner-freebsd-install Tue Aug 29 06:59:16 1995 Return-Path: install-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA01243 for install-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:59:16 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it ([194.179.130.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01218 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:59:10 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA03086; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:02:01 +0200 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199508291402.QAA03086@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: Mouse driver not found ... To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:02:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: install@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 29, 95 09:42:41 am Reply-To: Piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 847 Sender: install-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Chuck Robey (Tue Aug 29 15:42:41 1995): > > I am attempting to run startx from a dumb (getty?) terminal. It fails > > when attempting > > to locate the mouse file /dev/mouse. ... > mouse, which is serial. There isn't any /dev/mouse, although for those > with bus mouse interfaces, there's a dev/mse. I hope you took a look at ... It would be cool if the install prog. asked for the serial port to use as the mouse device, and then symlink the appropriate device to /dev/mouse, so that Joe User can just set /dev/mouse as the input device and have it work. P.S. I'm not subscribed to -install. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY