Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:50:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: brian@filoli.com (Brian Queen) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: basic questions Message-ID: <199603152250.PAA14258@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960315112614.6753B-100000@sundial.filoli.com> from "Brian Queen" at Mar 15, 96 11:31:11 am
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> What is the link - or where is it specified - between the > devices probed at boot, and the devices in /dev? In particular > simple examples like sio0 to cuaa0 ... The "link" is the file /dev/MAKEDEV" -- that is, the relationship is not guaranteed to be 1:1, and required user intervention to establish. This means that the /dev nodes can be "stale" relative to the actual devices. This will be fixed automatically when devfs becomes mandatory (if this ever happens). > I added xdm to an "off" tty in ttys. Now when I boot > X comes up. It is cool, but why does boot use THAT tty > instead of the others? There are 3 others with gettys on > them instead of xdm. The X server runs on one console per reference -- the first free vty, as a matter of fact. You will have to run multiple X servers to have multiple consoles with xdm presenting a login box. See the xdm documentation and the XFree86 release notes for FreeBSD for details. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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