Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 14:46:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: cofie@pluto.ee.cua.edu (Emmanuel Cofie) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199509141246.OAA07117@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <199509141039.GAA27287@pluto.ee.cua.edu> from "Emmanuel Cofie" at Sep 14, 95 06:39:58 am
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> > > I installed FreeBSD on a PC , followed the installation instruction > I have been running into some problems > > 1. I can not get the mouse. My mouse is on com1. I tried to create a > tty00 device as suggested in "Configuring X for your hardware" section > but MAKEDEV will not create tty00, so I create a /dev/mouse instead I don't know if this a documentation error (tty00) - use ttyd0 instead. tty00 is an alternate name but it looks like MAKEDEV doesn't generate this device anymore. > Whwne I tried to execute the "X or xinit" I get the error message > " Too many levels of symbolic links" /usr/X11R6/bin/X is ususally a link to the actual server you want to use, e.g. ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X Look at the files/links in that directory. Maybe something's messed. You should start X normally by either using startx at the shell level or use /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon in your rc.local script. > > > 2. How do I mouse the hard disk portion (Dos section) and my floppy > drives (1.2Mb & 1.44Mb) on unix system. mouse -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt (I mean mount of course :-) > > Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated. > Thanks Emmanuel cofie > --Chris Christoph P. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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