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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X configuration question Date: 26 Sep 1995 21:59:45 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <449pk1$gie@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1995Sep21.043117.8707@nosc.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Steven Owens <sowens@nosc.mil> wrote: >I just finished loading FreeBSD 2.0.5 off the WC CDROM. Install went smooth, >but I'm having a bit of difficulty getting my pointing device configured for >XF86. I'm using a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball, connected to com1. >During the X configuration process, the program indicates that it will save >the device configuration to /dev/mouse (default). However, this file does >not exist (or does not get created), and startx fails. I tried finding >another appropriate /dev device (com1, sio1, etc,), but they are not listed >either. /dev/ttyd0 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)