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From: mb@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /dev/mouse or /dev/tty00 for Xfree86?
Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:58:18 +0200
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Germany
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Ian Kallen (spidaman@nntp.best.com) wrote:

: I have a Diamond Stealth 64 w/ 1 mb DRAM (I believe it's the trio 32/64 
: variant) and when I installed XFree86 everything appeared pretty 
: smooth...that is until I tried to run it.  I'm using a two button 

[snip]

: ls -l /dev/tty00
: returns nothing.  So what next?  Do I need to reinstall XFree86??  I 

/dev/ttyd0 is right, not /dev/tty00.

: don't recall seeing it as a package when I did   pkg_info -a    so how 
: does one reinstall that anyway?

You don't need to re-install. Do this as root:

ln -s /dev/ttyd0 /dev/mouse

Things should work then.
--
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