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Subject: Re: Moused Problems
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> I can't get moused to work, even though I do
> 
> moused -c -s -p /dev/cuaa0 -t microsoft
> and
> vidcontrol -m on
> because the first command above results in the error message:
> 
> moused open(/dev/consolectl): No such file or directory
> 
> There's also no sysmouse in dev, and I can't seem to create them
> with sh ./MAKEDEV consolectl or sh ./MAKEDEV sysmouse.
> 
> This is 2.2-STABLE built from recent sources, but it's been going
> on for a long time....
> 

Odd,

>From /dev/MAKEDEV:

[..snip..]

# Device "make" file.  Valid arguments:

[..snip..]

#       sysmouse Mousesystems mouse emulator for syscons

[..snip..]

#       $Id: MAKEDEV,v 1.127.2.10 1997/04/15 18:07:06 jkh Exp $

sysmouse)
        rm -f sysmouse consolectl
        mknod sysmouse c 12 128
        mknod consolectl c 12 255
        chown root.wheel sysmouse consolectl
        ;;
[..snip..]

cagey@root # ./MAKEDEV sysmouse
cagey@root # ll sysmouse consolectl
crw-------  1 root  wheel   12, 255 Oct  1 22:31 consolectl
crw-------  1 root  wheel   12, 128 Oct  1 22:31 sysmouse

> Thanks--
> 
> 	Annelise 

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