From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 23:05:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA08693 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p2-11.intele.net [206.29.206.126]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08687 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA06961; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:04:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:04:42 -0700 Message-Id: <199603200704.AAA06961@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Doug White CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devices&/dev In-Reply-To: <81507549@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett