From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 13:22:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA20542 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:22:09 -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 NAA20535 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:22:07 -0700 Received: from olympus by devnull (8.6.8/8.6.6) id PAA12868; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:21:50 -0500 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA18006; Thu, 31 Aug 95 15:21:37 CDT From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9508312021.AA18006@olympus> Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming To: dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:21:36 -0500 (CDT) Cc: faulkner@devnull, jkh@time.cdrom.com, Piero@strider.ibenet.it, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com In-Reply-To: <199508310149.AA14169@physics.su.oz.au> from "David Dawes" at Aug 31, 95 11:49:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1743 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. > > Reading the XF86Config(5) man page might have been easier. Also you > could use the xf86config utility to generate your XF86Config file, and > it will show you the available protocols and ask you which you want. > > David > "Well, I could have done that", he mumbles as he beats himself about the head and shoulders with his nerf bat with the RTFM label on it. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________