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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installed with PS/2 mouse but changed to serial mouse
Date: 20 Sep 1996 01:37:11 +0100
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Barry Mishler (mishler@mailhub.elan.af.mil) wrote:
: When I installed the 2.1.5-RELEASE recently I stated that I had a PS/2
: mouse because, well, that's what it is. Now that I've concluded that I
: can't use that mouse due (apparently) to the problems stated in section
: 3.7 of the FAQ, I decided to just use a serial mouse.
: What do I need to change so that the serial mouse will work?
In theory, "incoming" serial ports are /dev/ttyd? and "outgoing" ports
are /dev/cuaa? where ? is the port number starting at zero. In my
experience, I've never managed to get the ttyd? ports to do anything
good. cuaa? always does the job.
If your mouse is on com1:
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s cuaa0 mouse
You may wish to look at /etc/rc.serial too - lots of comments. The idea
is that you configure your serial port to talk at the correct speed w/
the correct clocal settings etc. This script is run at system startup
time. I've never needed it though.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....