From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 05:20:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA04963 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA04958 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-3.ime.net.148.231.206.in-addr.arpa [206.231.148.132]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA12810; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:20:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31D12B2F.61CD@ime.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:21:03 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Lau CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <9606260909.AA07920@para.paradigm2000.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Patrick Lau wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to FreeBSD, I currently installed the SNAP2.2-960611 and > want to install X. I follow the readme of X and start configuring > the XF86Config file. I encounter the following problem: > > I type xdm -nodaemon to test XDM and get the message: > Fatal error: > Can't find /dev/mouse something like that > > I go to /dev and follow the readme procedure to > dmesg|grep sio and get > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff ........ > also I try ./MAKEDEV tty00 and use cat < /dev/tty00 to see whether mouse > response but get > no such file tty00 error.... > I found I had to use /dev/cuaa0 to attach my mouse to X when I had X installed! > BTW: MAKEDEV tty00 will make tty*0 device. Am I correct? If you were to look into the MAKEDEV script you will see that it states how to make ALL tty devices like so: MAKEDEV tty -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848