diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 9a92466f31..dbc903ef86 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -6717,13 +6717,13 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging - If you are using syscons (the default console driver), - you can configure FreeBSD to support a mouse pointer on each - virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, syscons + If you are using &man.syscons.4; (the default console driver), + you can configure &os; to support a mouse pointer on each + virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, &man.syscons.4; supports a virtual device called /dev/sysmouse. All mouse events received - from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse device - via moused. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more + from the real mouse device are written to the &man.sysmouse.4; device + via &man.moused.8;. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more virtual consoles, and use X, see and set up moused. @@ -6740,11 +6740,18 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging /dev/mouse under X. To make this work, /dev/mouse should be linked to /dev/sysmouse (see - &man.sysmouse.4;): + &man.sysmouse.4;) by adding the following line to + /etc/devfs.conf (see + &man.devfs.conf.5;): + + link sysmouse mouse + + This link can be created by restarting &man.devfs.5; + with the following command (as + root): + + &prompt.root; /etc/rc.d/devfs restart - &prompt.root; cd /dev -&prompt.root; rm -f mouse -&prompt.root; ln -s sysmouse mouse