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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!spidaman From: spidaman@nntp.best.com (Ian Kallen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: /dev/mouse or /dev/tty00 for Xfree86? Date: 8 Apr 1996 07:39:11 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4kafqv$64v@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have a Diamond Stealth 64 w/ 1 mb DRAM (I believe it's the trio 32/64 variant) and when I installed XFree86 everything appeared pretty smooth...that is until I tried to run it. I'm using a two button Microsoft mouse -- the installation created an entry in /etc/XF86Config for device /dev/mouse which does'nt exist and sure enough it bombs out on me when I try to startx. So it was suggested that running sh MAKEDEV tty00 in /dev would fix it but /dev/MAKEDEV does'nt appear to _do_ anything, when i run that command, ls -l /dev/tty00 returns nothing. So what next? Do I need to reinstall XFree86?? I don't recall seeing it as a package when I did pkg_info -a so how does one reinstall that anyway? TIA! Ian spidaman@well.com -- spidaman@arachna.com________The next interface will not be another \______/ __________________(_)_____ /_____ _desktop_metaphor --_____ /\ /\ __ ___/__ __ \_ /_ __ /_ __ `/_ __ `__ \ __ `/_ __ \ / /\--/\ \ _(__ )__ /_/ / / / /_/ / / /_/ /_ / / / / / /_/ /_ / / / ------><----- /____/ _ .___//_/ \__,_/ \__,_/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ /_/ /_/ \ \/--\/ / /_/ -- the revolution will not be televised \/____\/ / \