Re: Mouse device?
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:59:20PM -0700, Steven Stillaway wrote:
> After much fun with rarp, arp, tftpd & nfs I finally got debian linux
> installed on the old sparc 1 that I got a hold of.
>
> I had one strange issue with X though. It could not find the mouse. X was
> set to look for /dev/mouse, which did not exist. I know that /dev/mouse is
> usually just a link to a real device, but I did not know what.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
The default mouse device is /dev/sunmouse. It should be there, and X
should be using it.
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