Re: Mouse device?
Steven Stillaway wrote:
> I found a reference that told me that the sparc mouse was device c 10 6 --
> so I use mknod to create /dev/mouse (which worked), but I am still
> intereseted to know what the mouse device is called by default in a sparc.
When you have a Linux sourcetree available, all device numbers
and /dev entries are documented in Documentation/devices.txt
>From that file:
10 char Non-serial mice, misc features
6 = /dev/sunmouse Sun mouse
> I also found it unsual that debian did not create the symlink from
> /dev/mouse to this device, whatever it is. Is this normal? It was with
> debian 2.1.
>From the errata (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/problems)
There is another bug in the symbolic link from /dev/sunmouse to
/dev/mouse is not created. As root, just do ln -s sunmouse /dev/mouse.
(Bug fixed in proposed-updates/makedev.)
Regards,
Pieter
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