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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Help With XFree86 on FreeBSD
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 09:04:50 GMT
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In <2t7nf5$eei@ulowell.uml.edu> SMITHD@LIBVAX.UML.EDU (Doug Smith) writes:
>Hello All,
> I'm new to the unix world and i'm in the process of setting up
>XFree86 on my 486DX33. The installation of FreeBSD went well and I
>can logon the system. I have installed and have setup XFree86 but
>my problem is I don't have a com0 device in my /dev directory. And I
>don't know how to create the device. This is the problem that XFree86
>is saying when I try to start it up. If anyone can help me out here
>it would be apreciated. If I have not supplied all the answers to for
>someone to help me then Please E-Mail me with some more questions and I
>will do my best to answer them. I hope to here from someone soon.
On FreeBSD, the serial ports are now known as /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01,
where: tty00 == what DOS calls COM1
tty01 == what DOS calls COM2
Also, see the sio(4) manual page for details on setting up com ports.
Geoff.
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