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From: mb@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions ??
Date: 3 Jul 1996 20:12:04 +0200
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Pat Carp (ratz@primenet.com) wrote:
: I'm new with FreeBSD and am having some problem that I need help with.

: 2. With Xfree86 it specifies that to check a tty port type "cat < /dev/tty00" 
: and you should see some output to screen. I have both sio and the kernel see 

It should do this when you move the mouse and/or push the mouse
buttons. Have you?

: them on boot up time.
: sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
: sio0: type 16550A 
: sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
: sio1: type 16550A
: sio2 not found at 0x3e8
: sio3 not found at 0x2e8
:  
: I have tried making the device MAKEDEV tty00 but nothing happens. I thought 
: that I read somewhere that FreeBSD doesn't  use tty00 but uses ttyd0, tried 

Yes, this is right if your mouse is on COM1. For COM2, use /dev/ttyd1 instead.

The baud rate of the serial interface may be wrong. You can 
change it by using stty(1). If this helps, you may want to enter
this command into your /etc/rc.local (or use /etc/rc.serial).

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