From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 17:30:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA02987 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:30:32 -0700 Received: from Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (Wit401402.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.162]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA02980 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:30:27 -0700 Received: (from alain@localhost) by Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA01533; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:30:16 +0200 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:30:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Kalker Reply-To: A.C.P.M.Kalker@student.utwente.nl To: Wilko Bulte cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming In-Reply-To: <199508301854.UAA01581@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Wilko Bulte wrote: > But serious: I last week I converted a potential Linux user to > FreeBSD. The install was simple but for the *&^*( mouse port > he called me to ask what he should use. > Maybe I have found a pointer to a source for some of this confusion: When xf86config (run from sysinstall) asks the user to specify which device file to use for the mouse, both suggestions for common names it gives ('/dev/tty00' and '/dev/mouse') are not valid in the current situation of FreeBSD... Just my 5 cents (cents have long ago gone out in this country :-) ) --- Alain