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From: paul@triton.demon.co.uk (Paul Medcalf)
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Subject: Re: Mice/Mail in NetBSD0.9
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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 21:56:12 +0000
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>You haven't specified what type of mouse you have, or how it's
>specified in your Xconfig file.
I thought I had mentioned that it was a serial mouse, attached
to dos com1. MSD (part of messy win package) reports it as a
PC Mouse that is supposed to microsoft compatible.
I specify "microsoft" in the config file.
>
>This isn't very helpful unless you know the code to send to the mouse
>to get it to start sending data. That depends on the type of mouse.
I have no information of that sort in the docs that came with the
mouse. Given that its a microsoft compatible serial mouse,
any suggestions ?
>
> It is on dos com1 (BSD com0 ?). Dos can see it, BSD cant.
>
>What do you mean by that? It's called `com0'. Is that listed during
>boot or not?
>
What I meant was that under dos the mouse is connected to serial port
one, i.e. com1. I believe that under NetBSD the first serial port
is in fact labelled com0 although the physical connection is the same,
(dos com1 == bsd com0)
> 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 ?
>
>Are you sure those aren't vestiges of a 0.8 system (which numbered the
>com ports starting with 1)? I *just* checked the distribution files,
>and there is certainly a com0 in there.
>
Mine was an install of NetBSD0.9 straight out of the box, and
there was definitely only a com1, no com0.
Are these are meant to be symbolic links to tty00 and
tty01 ?
>It would be very hard for us to provide a generic sendmail.cf. Our
>feeling is that it is better to simply not provide one and have users
>create their own before using sendmail than to supply one which does
>the wrong thing on most machines.
>
Interesting. DEC provide one for Ultrix, HP supply one for HP-UX.
Could not a simple example that is known to work, simply be
documented and shipped as an example of how to do it, rather than
leaving the end user to write up one from scratch (perhaps with
little or no knowledge of sendmail) ? In most other respects I
found BSD easy to install and get working, and a simple cf file
would have speeded things up a bit. No major problem I guess.
Now where did that sendmail manual go ...;-)
Thanks for the help,
Paul
>
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