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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
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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
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