Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:17:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Moused Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001224824.2791A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001220348.215C-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Kevin Eliuk wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > There's also no sysmouse in dev, and I can't seem to create them > > with sh ./MAKEDEV consolectl or sh ./MAKEDEV sysmouse. > > > > This is 2.2-STABLE built from recent sources, but it's been going > > on for a long time.... > > > > Odd, > > >From /dev/MAKEDEV: > > [..snip..] > > # Device "make" file. Valid arguments: > > [..snip..] > > # sysmouse Mousesystems mouse emulator for syscons > > [..snip..] > > # $Id: MAKEDEV,v 1.127.2.10 1997/04/15 18:07:06 jkh Exp $ > > sysmouse) > rm -f sysmouse consolectl > mknod sysmouse c 12 128 > mknod consolectl c 12 255 > chown root.wheel sysmouse consolectl > ;; > [..snip..] > > cagey@root # ./MAKEDEV sysmouse > cagey@root # ll sysmouse consolectl > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 255 Oct 1 22:31 consolectl > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 128 Oct 1 22:31 sysmouse Aha, I think we've got it: ls -l /dev/MAKEDEV says: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28101 Nov 16 1995 /dev/MAKEDEV Still there from the original installation on this drive of 2.1.....I've updated /etc after make worlds but it never occured to me to copy /etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV to /dev/MAKEDEV. So I did that and now I've got sysmouse and consolectl in /dev--the old MAKEDEV didn't have the lines you quote above. Thanks very much! Annelise
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