Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:37:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA install failure Message-ID: <16696.854134621@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 12:34:11 PST." <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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> - I was unable to select "Busmouse" in the mouse selection menu, > even though the probe messages included "mse0 at 0x23c irq 5 on isa". > Another oddness about the mouse selection menu: when I first selected > it, I could select "PS/2 mosue", but if I then selected COM1 and then > went back to "PS/2" I couldn't select PS/2 the second time. I finally found this one! readlink() doesn't null append its result (I must have glossed over this the first time I read the man page) so the previous value, in this case /dev/cuaa0, was simply overlaid. That explains why the serial devices, with their longer names, were displayed but not the Bus or PS/2 mice (which have shorter names :). > - XF86Setup stopped accepting input from the keyboard after I hit enter > to "dismiss" the info panel about how to set up the mouse. I couldn't > figure out what to do so I went to VTY4 and killed XF86Setup. After that, > there was nothing running on any other VTY (hitting ctl-alt-F[124] just > beeped) and X wasn't responding to ctl-alt-BS so I ended up hitting > reset. Hmmm. I can't reproduce this one, but I've heard enough gritching about various bogons in the new XF86Setup that I'm going to make the older XF86Config an option as well. Jordanhome | help
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