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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,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
<Piero@Free.IT>                                     I 20136 Milano - ITALY



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