Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:21:36 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: faulkner@devnull, jkh@time.cdrom.com, Piero@strider.ibenet.it, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <9508312021.AA18006@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199508310149.AA14169@physics.su.oz.au> from "David Dawes" at Aug 31, 95 11:49:48 am
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> > >> > > >Oh yeh, the docs should have something in big bold letters about linking > >> > > >/dev/mouse to /dev/cuaa0 under whatever name it ends up as... > >> > > > >> > > That would be bogus. X works with the vanilla POSIX port ttyd0 and > >> > > always has. > >> > > >> > I'd not say it's "bogus". Maybe it's redundant, or strictly > >> > >> I agree. I was already planning to put something in the 2.1 install > >> that said "What sort of mouse do you have? <menu of possible types and > >> port assignments follows>" and then link /dev/mouse to it (and maybe > >> suggest that they rebuild a kernel, if it's a PS/2 mouse). > >> > >> Between serial meeces on different ports, PS/2 mice, and busmeeces, > >> it's a problem for new users. Making X standardise on /dev/mouse was > >> going to be my next request of those folks and we'd just make sure the > >> link was in place. > > > >But you would still have to select a mouse protocol in the XF86Config file. > >I would be thrilled to see which protocols are supported. I had to > >strings the server to figure out what they called the PS/2 mouse protocol. > > > >They call it PS/2. > > Reading the XF86Config(5) man page might have been easier. Also you > could use the xf86config utility to generate your XF86Config file, and > it will show you the available protocols and ask you which you want. > > David > "Well, I could have done that", he mumbles as he beats himself about the head and shoulders with his nerf bat with the RTFM label on it. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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