From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 20:10:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10101 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10092 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA28205; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jamie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/rodent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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