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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 20:54:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, piero@strider.ibenet.it, hackers@freebsd.org,
        peter@nmti.com
In-Reply-To: <199508300814.SAA26623@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 30, 95 06:14:16 pm
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> >> >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

You obviously never tried to catch a mouse ;-)

But serious: I last week I converted a potential Linux user to
FreeBSD. The install was simple but for the *&^*( mouse port
he called me to ask what he should use.

Wilko
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