From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 01:20:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA18052 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:20:17 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA18022 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:19:02 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA26623; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:14:16 +1000 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:14:16 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508300814.SAA26623@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, piero@strider.ibenet.it Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com 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 >speaking "unnececessary", but as I suggested on -install I think I meant cuaa0 would be bogus. Who runs getty on their mouse port? Bruce