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Subject: Re: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
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Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> wrote:
>>  From the 8.0 release notes is the following
>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html
>>
>> [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port 
>> devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have 
>> been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.
>>
>> tested these rc.conf statements
>>
>> moused_port="/dev/cuau0"
>> moused_type="intellimouse"
>> moused_enable="YES"
>>
>> serial mouse works again
> 
> Can confirm.
> 
> 
> 
>> This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the 
>> new dev names.
> 
> That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would
> need an update, too.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html
> 
> 
> 

submitted PR
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140887