Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:31:22 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, dawes@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV Message-ID: <199412070831.AA19815@physics.su.OZ.AU> In-Reply-To: <199412070743.SAA30064@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 7, 94 06:43:22 pm
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>>> Make vga if a vty is made. It may still be required for X. It got nuked >>> with pc*. > >> No, X expects to not to find a /dev/vga if syscons is the console. > >Then why does `startx 2>/tmp/z' print the message > > Cannot open /dev/vga: No such file or directory > >on the last line of /tmp/z? (X works fine. This is under 1.1.5, >X from the 1.1 cdrom, XF86_SVGA server, syscons, NCONS=4, gettys on >ttyv[0-3].) That is a fairly old X (2.0?). Since version 2.1 XFree86 tries to open /dev/ttyv0 first, and then /dev/vga if that fails. Checking on my fairly newly installed FreeBSD 2.0, I see that there is a /dev/vga sym-link: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 29 08:59 /dev/vga -> ttyv0 I didn't create this. I just tried removing it, and have confirmed that XFree86 (3.1) starts fine without it. David
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