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. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'