Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 03:50:55 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: no /dev/vga on FreeBSD-6.x ? Message-ID: <20050901034959.X339@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200509010231.j812VAQ2026594@corbulon.video-collage.com> References: <200509010231.j812VAQ2026594@corbulon.video-collage.com>
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I've just a built a fresh xorg-server on a fresh install of 6.0. > > The X-server self-configured properly and found the neomagic card in > this laptop. > > Unfortunately, whenever the X-server tries to start up, it dies > complaining about the absence of /dev/vga ... > > "device vga" is certainly in the kernel and vga0 is listed in > dmesg.boot. > > Please, advice. Thanks! Last time I checked, the '/dev/vga' error was actually a bug in the X server, which means to print a different error: that '/dev/mem' is missing. Likely, your kernel is compiled without "device mem", which is a standard option in GENERIC. Robert N M Watson
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