Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:43:55 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: Piero@strider.ibenet.it, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <9508302343.AA16086@olympus> In-Reply-To: <2335.809770195@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:09:55 am
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> > > > >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? <menu of possible types and > 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. Bastards. :-) > > For that matter, if they have a modem on any port I'd be inclined to make > them a /dev/modem link too, but that's another topic. > > Jordan > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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