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From: Todd C Miller <millert@courtesan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: serial mouse?
Date: 5 Jul 1997 23:34:57 -0600
Organization: Courtesan Consulting
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Reply-To: millert@courtesan.com (Todd C Miller)
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From the keyboard of Corey Brenner <brenner@umr.edu>:
> I just set up OpenBSD 2.1 on my system, and am having a heck of
> a time configuring X. I can't seem to figure out what the
> mouse device is. I know that the modem (ttyS1 under Line-Sucks)
> is tty01, and I would assume that the mouse (ttyS0) would be
> tty00, but that seems not to be the case. I'm using a slightly
> modified XF86Config from my Linux setup, using the OpenBSD
> devices I'd think were appropriate, but no mouse.
I have a serial mouse working with X just fine. /dev/tty00
is correct assuming your mouse is plugged into the first
serial port. If you are not running the X server as root
(or if it is not setuid root) you may need to open up
permissions on /dev/tty00 (say, mode 666) or make use
of /etc/fbtab and have login chown the device to you.
- todd
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Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com