Subject: Re: A sample 1.3 README for X11
To: Thorsten Frueauf <frueauf@ira.uka.de>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/12/1997 10:17:13
On Nov 12, 5:05pm, Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
> I tryed to install the pmax-X11 stuff and had to take some hurdles.
> First I was not able to create /dev/pm0 because of a typo in MAKEDEV.
/dev/pm0 isn't going to make any difference, nothing references it.
> couldn't open pm
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
Methinks I should rebuild the Xservers and change that message. It sure
seems to have caused a lot of confusion.
> So how should /dev/mouse look like? I did not find it in /etc/MAKEDEV.
> /dev/pm0 looks like
> crw------- 1 root wheel 8, 0 Nov 12 16:41 /dev/pm0
> at my DS3100.
$ ls -l /dev/mouse
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Mar 25 1997 /dev/mouse -> fb0
Jonathan posted a message that indicated that MAKEDEV is supposed to create
this link, but I don't see it in the sources.
Michael
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