Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:04:42 -0700 From: wes@intele.net To: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devices&/dev Message-ID: <199603200704.AAA06961@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <81507549@toto.iv>
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Doug White writes:
> ... If you have a serial mouse on sio0/COM1 and are installing X as
> recommended, you make the symlink yourself:
>
> ln -s /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse
>
> Then specify the Device as "/dev/mouse" in XF86Config.
To generalize a little further, it is a *good* idea to "virtualize"
all of your important devices like this. It is much easier to
remember that backups go do /dev/DAT than /dev/rst4, even if the
former is simply a symlink to the latter. This goes for *all* devices
that get exposed to the user - floppies, backup tapes, and potentially
printers.
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