From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 7 14:24:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09978 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09971 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21699; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:32:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608072132.RAA21699@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: mouse in Xwindows To: sln@public.jn.sd.cn (sdjn) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:32:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <01BB84D5.18714EC0@ppp33.jn.sd.cn> from sdjn at "Aug 8, 96 02:55:44 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sdjn wrote... > Hi, > > I met problem when I config the Xwindows on my system(2.2-960801-SNAP). > When I run startx command, the xwindow didn't work and gave this message " Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse: too many levels of symbolic links). And I checked the /dev/mouse using "ls -l" and the list is: > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Aug 9 2:08 mouse -> mouse > > the mouse is a symbolic link to another mouse, so what's the problem? How can I cut or change this link. By the way, I make the device "mouse" using MAKEDEV and it returned no error. > Nope, 'mouse' is a symbolic link to itself, which is a symbolic link to itself.... You need to remove this, and replace it with a link to the appropriate device. Which device depeneds on what kind of mouse you have... If you have a serial mouse on the first serial port (COM1 in DOS-speak), the device is /dev/cuaa0. For the second serial port - /dev/cuaa1. For a bus mouse - /dev/mse0 for a PS/2 mouse /dev/psm0 (requires kernel build). > > Thanks in advance! You're welcome. > > Yours, > Song Lining > John PS - please try to make sure yor lines don't wrap around - it can make your mail hard to read. -- Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key