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From: paul@triton.demon.co.uk (Paul Medcalf)
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Subject: Mice/Mail in NetBSD0.9
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 18:36:42 +0000
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Having just installed NetBSD 0.9, I'm trying to get X and mail up/running.
Havin installed XFree86-2.0 and configured the Xconfig file correctly,
(I think....) I get a blank screen when I run startx. Haing re-directed
the output of startx to a log file I get a couple of errors. The first
tells me of a missing resource (not named) and the second tells me of a
fatal server error, mouse missing.
Could anybody give me some simple instruction on how to solve mouse problems
with serial mice. I read a single line on this in the FAQ's and install
docs, that said it was an OS problem and to try connecting to it with
tip/cu. In this case I get the connected message, and my system hangs.
+++<ctrl Z> will not exit either. I get no characters denoting the mouse is
working. The mouse is a serial mouse that MSD under dos reports as a PC mouse.
It is on dos com1 (BSD com0 ?). Dos can see it, BSD cant.
Q. Vanilla Netbsd 0.9 installs with a com1 linked to tty01 and no com0.
I did a MAKEDEV com0 which then linked com0 to tty00. Is this correct ?
Q. I created an entry in /etc/remote called com0:com0:dv=/dev/com0 wth a
baud rate of 9600. Do I need to simply tip com0 ?
Q. (Last) What should I see on the screen as a result of doing a
# tip com0 <return> ??
Should I see funny characters generated by the mouse ?
By the way, sendmail does not appear to have a default sendmail.cf for me
to hack about. Having seen the length of Ultrix and HP-UX ones, does
anybody have a starter I can use ?
Cheers,
Paul
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