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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!schemers
  3. From: schemers@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers)
  4. Subject: Re: 3100 upgrade to 5000/125
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.000457.13021@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Summary: /dev/mouse
  7. Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
  8. Organization: Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University
  9. References: <1992Jul27.234700.6924@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  10. Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 00:04:57 GMT
  11. Lines: 25
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Jul27.234700.6924@leland.Stanford.EDU> schemers@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers) writes:
  14. >We have a couple of DECstation 3100's that were upgraded to DECstation
  15. >5000/125's:
  16. >  DECstation 3100         DECstation 5000/125
  17. >  ---------------         -------------------
  18. >  Color                   HX board ( fb0 at ibus0, module PMAGB-BA 1280X1024)
  19. >  RZ57/RZ23               RZ57/RZ23
  20. >  24 MEG                  32 MEG
  21. >
  22.  
  23. Of course minutes after posting this (and hours of screwing around with
  24. the 3100, some problems related to custom kerenl code doing IP multicast stuff)
  25. I decided to see if /dev/mouse could be causing the problem. Sure enough,
  26. after doing a rm /dev/mouse, and:
  27.  
  28. mknod /dev/mouse c 45 1
  29.  
  30. The X server came right up. I thought doing "doconfig" without specifying
  31. a config file would rebuild the devices correctly, but I guess not.
  32.  
  33. -- 
  34. Roland J. Schemers III              |            Networking Systems
  35. Systems Programmer                  |            168 Pine Hall   (415)-723-6740
  36. Distributed Computing Group         |            Stanford, CA 94305-4122
  37. Stanford University                 |            schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU
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