From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 01:11:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA17838 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:11:09 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA17829 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:11:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA02337; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:09:55 -0700 To: Piero@strider.ibenet.it cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:38:24 +0200." <199508300138.DAA00296@strider.ibenet.it> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:09:55 -0700 Message-ID: <2335.809770195@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >Oh yeh, the docs should have something in big bold letters about linking > > >/dev/mouse to /dev/cuaa0 under whatever name it ends up as... > > > > That would be bogus. X works with the vanilla POSIX port ttyd0 and > > always has. > > I'd not say it's "bogus". Maybe it's redundant, or strictly I agree. I was already planning to put something in the 2.1 install that said "What sort of mouse do you have? " and then link /dev/mouse to it (and maybe suggest that they rebuild a kernel, if it's a PS/2 mouse). Between serial meeces on different ports, PS/2 mice, and busmeeces, it's a problem for new users. Making X standardise on /dev/mouse was going to be my next request of those folks and we'd just make sure the link was in place. For that matter, if they have a modem on any port I'd be inclined to make them a /dev/modem link too, but that's another topic. Jordan