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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        jamie <batsy@interlog.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/rodent
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114200851.28188B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961113203542.5326A-100000@gold.interlog.com>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, jamie wrote:

> This is the relevant part of lsdev relating to the mouse devices and seriel 
> ports. I have a dumb terminal on cuaa1 but nothing on cuaa0(sio0 I think)
> , yet cuaa0 is still busy.
> 
> Device     State           Description
> ---------- --------------- --------------------------------------------------
> sio0       Busy            Serial port: National 16550A or compatible
> sio1       Busy            Serial port: National 16550A or compatible
> mse0       Unconfigured    ATI or Logitech bus mouse adapter
> psm0       Idle            PS/2 Mouse

Something is running there, perhaps a getty?

> Script started on Wed Nov 13 14:49:53 1996
> groovy: {1} su
> Password:
> groovy: {1} cat /dev/mouse
> cat: /dev/mouse: Resource temporarily unavailable

/dev/mouse ?=? /dev/psm0  

do ls -l /dev/mouse and make sure that it is a symlink to the proper mouse
device.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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