From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 06:42:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA28871 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:42:52 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA28859 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:42:50 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA12391; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 09:42:43 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id JAA01975; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 09:42:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 09:42:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Evan Polster <71544.1006@compuserve.com> cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Mouse driver not found ... In-Reply-To: <950829084951_71544.1006_EHL61-1@CompuServe.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 29 Aug 1995, Evan Polster wrote: > > Hello. > > Situation: > > I am attempting to run startx from a dumb (getty?) terminal. It fails > when attempting > to locate the mouse file /dev/mouse. Take a look at the sio man page. There are no sio /dev devices, they are called ttydn and cuaan, where nn is the port number. I use cuaa0 for my 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 XF86Config man page, and have entered the mouse description, including this port id, into the XF86Config config file. > > What happened during install: > > During the initial install (from DOS) I attempted to install some 3rd pty > products > and crashed due to a memory problem. So I tried to return to the post > install > customization process via DOS with no luck (appears I would actually have > to > reinstall to get back to the point where I was in post-install).. So I > ran the xconfig program (xf86config or > somesuch?) from FreeBSD. Seemed to run fine but I don't > think certain device drivers ever got loaded properly because of my initial > INSTALL > (packages) failure. > > I attempted to run the command: > > sh MAKEDEV mouse > > from /dev with no luck. > > My mouse is serial through COM1: so I ran: > > dmesg | grep sio > > and it showed me the COM1 port. I couldn't cat to the terminal from this > port though because: > > cat < /dev/sio0 > > command told me that /dev/sio0 didn't exist (which I already knew from > ls). > > Neither did /dev/tty00. > > How do I install the proper Microsoft 2-button serial mouse driver? > > My /etc/XF86Config file contains "Microsoft" and "/dev/mouse" for the > pointer protocol. > > As you can probably tell I am very new to this as all my attempts > have been guided by reading the ../X11/doc stuff or man pages. > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Evan Polster > CompuServe: 71544,1006 > > P.S. As you probably already know, I have modified my /etc/ttys file to redefine > ttyv3 > to run /xdm -nodaemon xterm. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------