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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news3.near.net!shore.shore.net!news!betsys From: betsys@northshore.shore.net (Betsy Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Newbie question: can't MAKEDEV /dev/mouse Date: 29 May 1995 04:40:38 GMT Organization: North Shore Access/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <BETSYS.95May29004038@northshore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: northshore.ecosoft.com I just picked up FreeBSD today (the 2.0 Walnut Creek CDROM distribution) and I'm having trouble getting the mouse to work. The initial setup made a /dev/mse0, which MAKEDEV says should be a bus mouse. If I try to use /dev/mse0, I get "Device not Configured" errors (at the shell prompt.) When I run the MAKEDEV myself, I end up with a link mouse->mouse which is pretty useless. System is a 486 and a basic clone mouse (DEXXA) which uses Logitech drivers and has been Microsoft Mouse compatible in other contexts (win3.1, win95, Linux.) Can someone give me the mkdev parameters to make a mouse device that the shell and X will accept? I read all the FAQ's I could find, no reference to this problem. thanks Betsy (trying to make the switch from Linux to FreeBSD)