From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 20:20:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09962 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09952 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA00727; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 03:20:23 GMT Message-Id: <199607170320.DAA00727@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA129693655; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:20:55 -0600 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:20:55 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: durang@u.washington.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Ken Marsh on Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: MAKEDEV making symbolic link, not mouse dev. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Marsh writes: Ken> I don't know where I got this, but I suspect the device file Ken> to be tty00 or mouse. However, if I do "/dev/MAKEDEV tty00" Ken> then /dev/tty00 is NOT created, and no error message is Ken> given. You want to do cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ttyd0 cuaa0 But those should both already exist. Then specify Device "/dev/ttyd0" in the "Pointer" section of your XF86Config file. If for some reason ttyd0 doesn't work, then use Device "/dev/cuaa0" -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/