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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-09 23:14:02 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-09 23:14:02 +0000
commit464e5c50c35a4007f6499c990dde08f262ff5566 (patch)
treec487ae9b7dd3a1f61ee38c8a4f85c492a46deecb
parent8ece7cbc43e424a0a5c4071e251ccb97ccf64188 (diff)
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Flesh out information on pointing devices and add some manpage
cross-references for keyboards. Add a mention of VGA video cards, and pointers to XFree86 where appropriate. PR: 43410
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml33
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/common/dev.sgml33
2 files changed, 54 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
index d08546b..56f2491 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
@@ -3397,13 +3397,26 @@
<para arch="i386,pc98,alpha">Floppy drives (&man.fdc.4; driver)</para>
<para arch="i386">Genius and Mustek hand scanners</para>
<para arch="i386">GPB and Transputer drivers</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">VGA-compatible video cards
+ (&man.vga.4; driver)
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Information regarding specific video cards and
+ compatibility with <application>XFree86</application> can be
+ found at <ulink
+ url="http://www.xfree86.org/"></ulink>.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Keyboards including:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha">
- <para>AT-style keyboards</para>
+ <para>AT-style keyboards (&man.atkbd.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha,ia64">
- <para>PS/2 keyboards</para>
+ <para>PS/2 keyboards (&man.atkbd.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="pc98">
<para>Standard keyboards</para>
@@ -3415,22 +3428,30 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para arch="i386">Loran-C receiver (Dave Mills experimental hardware, loran driver).</para>
- <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Mice including:
+ <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Pointing devices including:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem arch="i386,pc98">
- <para>Bus mice (&man.mse.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>Bus mice and compatible devices (&man.mse.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha,ia64">
- <para>PS/2 mice (&man.psm.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>PS/2 mice and compatible devices, including many laptop
+ pointing devices (&man.psm.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Serial mice</para>
+ <para>Serial mice and compatible devices</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,pc98,alpha">
<para>USB mice (specific instances are listed in the
section describing <link linkend="usb">USB devices</link>)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>&man.moused.8; has more information on using pointing
+ devices with &os;. Information on using pointing devices
+ with <application>XFree86</application> can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://www.xfree86.org/"></ulink>.</para>
+ </note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha"><quote>PC standard</quote> parallel ports (&man.ppc.4; driver)</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/common/dev.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/common/dev.sgml
index d08546b..56f2491 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/common/dev.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/common/dev.sgml
@@ -3397,13 +3397,26 @@
<para arch="i386,pc98,alpha">Floppy drives (&man.fdc.4; driver)</para>
<para arch="i386">Genius and Mustek hand scanners</para>
<para arch="i386">GPB and Transputer drivers</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">VGA-compatible video cards
+ (&man.vga.4; driver)
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Information regarding specific video cards and
+ compatibility with <application>XFree86</application> can be
+ found at <ulink
+ url="http://www.xfree86.org/"></ulink>.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
<para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Keyboards including:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha">
- <para>AT-style keyboards</para>
+ <para>AT-style keyboards (&man.atkbd.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha,ia64">
- <para>PS/2 keyboards</para>
+ <para>PS/2 keyboards (&man.atkbd.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="pc98">
<para>Standard keyboards</para>
@@ -3415,22 +3428,30 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para arch="i386">Loran-C receiver (Dave Mills experimental hardware, loran driver).</para>
- <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Mice including:
+ <para arch="i386,pc98,alpha,ia64">Pointing devices including:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem arch="i386,pc98">
- <para>Bus mice (&man.mse.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>Bus mice and compatible devices (&man.mse.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,alpha,ia64">
- <para>PS/2 mice (&man.psm.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>PS/2 mice and compatible devices, including many laptop
+ pointing devices (&man.psm.4; driver)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Serial mice</para>
+ <para>Serial mice and compatible devices</para>
</listitem>
<listitem arch="i386,pc98,alpha">
<para>USB mice (specific instances are listed in the
section describing <link linkend="usb">USB devices</link>)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>&man.moused.8; has more information on using pointing
+ devices with &os;. Information on using pointing devices
+ with <application>XFree86</application> can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://www.xfree86.org/"></ulink>.</para>
+ </note>
</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha"><quote>PC standard</quote> parallel ports (&man.ppc.4; driver)</para>
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