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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse probs on FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 2 Feb 1997 01:26:30 GMT
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"Casper Helenius" <helenius@image.dk> wrote:

>    I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5. on my P120, with the mouse on COM1, but no
> matter what I do, I cannot make any contact to the mouse. It is, of cause,
> XWindows that makes the trouble with the message 'Device not configured'

. make sure sio0 has been found at boot time
. use /dev/ttyd0 (or /dev/cuaa0) as the mouse device.

> ..., such as ATAPI CD-ROM-drive and soundcard?

Read this newsgroup.  There's a lot discussion about how to use ATAPI
drives.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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