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From: lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Carmay Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Creating tty00 using MAKEDEV on FreeBSD v2.0
Date: 20 Feb 1995 04:18:41 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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John Wadleigh (rain@mcl.ucsb.edu) wrote:
:
: I just installed the new SNAP-shot of FreeBSD v2.0 but when I try to
: install the new Xfree86 3.1.1 I need to create my mouse device file. It
: should be tty00 (that's what it was in the previous version of FreeBSD I
: used). BUT, I issue the following command:
: sh MAKEDEV tty00
:
: It returns the error: "tty00 - device not found"
I was confused by this too when I upgraded to XF86 3.1.1. Look for
the /dev/ttyd0 device file instead. That should have the same major and
minor device numbers as the old tty00. Try 'ln -s /dev/ttyd0 /dev/mouse'
and fire up X again.