Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:02:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse driver not found ... Message-ID: <199508291402.QAA03086@strider.ibenet.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950829093831.1669A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 29, 95 09:42:41 am
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Hello. Quoting from Chuck Robey (Tue Aug 29 15:42:41 1995): > > I am attempting to run startx from a dumb (getty?) terminal. It fails > > when attempting > > to locate the mouse file /dev/mouse. ... > mouse, which is serial. There isn't any /dev/mouse, although for those > with bus mouse interfaces, there's a dev/mse. I hope you took a look at ... It would be cool if the install prog. asked for the serial port to use as the mouse device, and then symlink the appropriate device to /dev/mouse, so that Joe User can just set /dev/mouse as the input device and have it work. P.S. I'm not subscribed to -install. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 <Piero@Free.IT> I 20136 Milano - ITALY
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