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From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse help needed!
Date: 30 Sep 1995 14:57:00 GMT
Organization: Alcatel Austria AG
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Who's that on the balcony with Geoff? (count@netc.net.au) wrote:

: 70651.567@compuserve.com (Don Adams) wrote:
: >Actually, I can't configure X because my mouse isn't found.  The mouse is on 
: >sio0, but there is no entry in /dev which remotely refers to sio0, tty00, 
: >mouse, or anything else which resembles a mouse device.

: I don't usually write "me too!" messages, but I have spent all day on the same
: thing.  The X doco (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.Config) suggests that in 99.999%
: of cases it is because the OS is not properly configured.  

: Hmmmn !  Yeah  !  Well,  I can't see how I have misconfigured it....

: If you get any replies by email, could you foeward'em to me please ?

: Geoff.

/dev/cuaa0 is the device name for sio0 device, if you are running 2.05R.
On 2.0R it was /dev/cua00.

This all assumes that you both have serial mice.  You can try to cat from
/dev/cua?? and see if you get something on screen.  Keep changing cua
numbers until you do :) (this does not work for bus(ps/2?) mice.)

2.0R's tty00 became ttyd0 on 2.05R.  You can use them as well, but they
are really meant to be used for getty's, and not for callout.

If this all works okay for you, remember to turn off NumLock, or to
uncomment ServerNumLock line in XF86Config.  Otherwise you may not be
able to select menus on some misconfigured X applications.

/Alby