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Re: I now have X, still no mouse



On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:30:17PM -0700, Lorens Kulla wrote:
> I've tried to make the links, my mouse is on com1 (ttyS0). When I issue the
> command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" I get file alreaddy Exists. My mouse 
> is a Logitech Moouseman Model:M-CV46. I seem to be really out of my league. 

This means that the link you're trying to create already exist, run 
"ls -l /dev/mouse" to see were the link points to. if /dev/mouse is linked to
something else you can recreate it with "ln -sf /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse".

Look at "man ln" for more information...

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