Update Question 11.8:

- Mark up syscons(4), sysmouse(4), moused(8)
- Turn "FreeBSD" into &os;
- Replace old symlink method with devfs(5)

Reviewed by:  trhodes, danger
Approved by:  gabor

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@@ -6717,13 +6717,13 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</programlisting>
         </question>
 
         <answer>
-          <para>If you are using syscons (the default console driver),
+          <para>If you are using &man.syscons.4; (the default console driver),
-            you can configure FreeBSD to support a mouse pointer on each
+            you can configure &os; to support a mouse pointer on each
-            virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, syscons
+            virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, &man.syscons.4;
             supports a virtual device called
             <devicename>/dev/sysmouse</devicename>.  All mouse events received
-            from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse device
+            from the real mouse device are written to the &man.sysmouse.4; device
-            via moused. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more
+            via &man.moused.8;. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more
             virtual consoles, <emphasis>and</emphasis> use X, see
             <xref linkend="moused" remap="another section"> and set up
             moused.</para>
@@ -6740,11 +6740,18 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</programlisting>
             <devicename>/dev/mouse</devicename> under X.  To make this
             work, <devicename>/dev/mouse</devicename> should be linked
             to <devicename>/dev/sysmouse</devicename> (see
-            &man.sysmouse.4;):</para>
+            &man.sysmouse.4;) by adding the following line to
+            <filename>/etc/devfs.conf</filename> (see
+            &man.devfs.conf.5;):</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>link    sysmouse    mouse</programlisting>
+
+	  <para>This link can be created by restarting &man.devfs.5;
+	    with the following command (as
+	    <username>root</username>):</para>
+
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/rc.d/devfs restart</userinput></screen>
 
-          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /dev</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>rm -f mouse</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>ln -s sysmouse mouse</userinput></screen>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>