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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Starting XFree861.1 In-Reply-To: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch's message of Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:11:40 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Oct14120841@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <Bvsr9F.CFv@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <1992Oct10.100501.11881@gagetalker.com> <1992Oct14.121140.28035@autelca.ascom.ch> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:08:41 GMT Lines: 69 In article <1992Oct14.121140.28035@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) writes: >In article <Bvsr9F.CFv@cosy.sbg.ac.at> peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter >Burgstaller) writes: >|> Then I started xinit (also startx) then I got the following >|> Message! >|> [ XFree86 starting problem deleted - NB.] >Ah, know it well, spent _hours_ on this one myself. It's >probably yer mouse. I've got the patched kernel (beta-1) and >re-mknod'd my serial ports and I wound up having to use com2 >to get to com1. :) Of course that was _AFTER_ I figured out >I wasn't supposed to be using tty0! Too many hours on the >commercial unixes... [ some text deleted - NB. ] After reading this (and the README file which came with the patchkit) I think I need some help with the setup of the com-ports after applying all the patches in the patchkit. The information part for the com-port patch (select and re-numbering the ports) just contains: "You have to re-mknod your com ports" This text without instructions how to do it, is a very useful hint, but is not enough for me. The 386BSD kernel binary distribued with XFree86 is configured for two com ports. To create the ports with the proper major and minor device numbers use: mknod /dev/com1 c 8 1 mknod /dev/com2 c 8 2 This will be configured by the x386install in the next release. I have 2 com-ports installed on my system but never used one. However, I will try to compile X11R5, apply the diff's for XFree86-1.1, etc. and will want to use my mouse on one of those com-ports for X. Now, if I do have to re-mknod my com-ports how would I do it (I know how it works and which program to call, though) ? I saw that there was no new "/dev/MAKEDEV" in the patch. So, unless the major or minor device-numbers didn't change, I don't need to do new mknod's, right ? It all burns down to the simple questions: What are the major / minor device numbers for the "new" com-ports ? or in other words: Are the major numbers the same (I guess so) or what are they ? Are the minor numbers 0 for com1, 1 for com2, etc. ? If somebody can tell me (and other new users of XFree86) what do to exactly AFTER you have applied the patches, I am sure, it will save some troubles. If you use the kernel patches distributed with XFree86, Use the same numbers as above for the com ports. I haven't verified that Terry Lambert's patch kit uses the same numbers, but I would guess that it does. Rich Thanks in advance, Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt