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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:59:15 +0100
From:      Francis Jordan <frankrj@netscape.net>
To:        "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux X Server
Message-ID:  <3803BD43.F097500C@netscape.net>
References:  <000701bf14ca$9f666360$01010101@bopper>

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"Bill A. K." wrote:

>      Has anyone ever run a Linux X Server under FreeBSD/Linux Emulation? I'm
> trying to run the Voodoo Banshee server from Creative Labs. The reason I'm
> trying to do this is because when I run XFree86 3.3.5, it screws up my
> console display when I exit X. The Linux Server is looking to open /dev/tty9
> and it can't. I tried putting a hard link from /dev/tty9 to /dev/ttyv9 but
> when i started X it paniced the kernel :)
> 
> Is there any way first of all to fix 3.3.5 to work, and if not, to get the
> Linux server to work? Is there any way to somehow mimic /dev/tty9 for it?


The Banshee only seems to have this problem when switching from a
graphical mode to the _standard_ text mode (80x25).   Adding the
following line to /etc/rc.conf

allscreens_flags="80x30"

fixed it for me.

Frank


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