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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:50:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian Queen <brian@filoli.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devices&/dev
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319174834.11201E-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960319104938.3943A-100000@sundial.filoli.com>

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On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Brian Queen wrote:

> I got a few good tips on this the other day, but I
> need a bit more.
> 
> If I do a MAKEDEV mouse, or even a MAKEDEV standard,
> how does MAKEDEV know to use sio0 or whatever?

It doesn't.  If you have a serial mouse on sio0/COM1 and are installing X as 
recommended, you make the symlink yourself:

ln -s /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse

Then specify the Device as "/dev/mouse" in XF86Config.

Optionally you can dispense with that and just put /dev/cuaa0 as the Device.

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "Microsoft"
    Device      "/dev/cuaa0"

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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