8.0 release serial mouse not working

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
>  From the 8.0 release notes is the following
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html
> 
> [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port 
> devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have 
> been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.
> 
> tested these rc.conf statements
> 
> moused_port="/dev/cuau0"
> moused_type="intellimouse"
> moused_enable="YES"
> 
> serial mouse works again

Can confirm.



> This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the 
> new dev names.

That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would
need an update, too.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html



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