From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 16:44:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA08809 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:44:31 -0700 Received: from devnull (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA08803 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:44:18 -0700 Received: from olympus by devnull (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA05577; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:44:05 -0500 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA16086; Wed, 30 Aug 95 18:43:55 CDT From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9508302343.AA16086@olympus> Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:43:55 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Piero@strider.ibenet.it, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com In-Reply-To: <2335.809770195@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:09:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1476 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? port assignments follows>" 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. But you would still have to select a mouse protocol in the XF86Config file. I would be thrilled to see which protocols are supported. I had to strings the server to figure out what they called the PS/2 mouse protocol. They call it PS/2. Bastards. :-) > > 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 > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________