Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 13:31:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: sporkl@dti.net Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X problems Message-ID: <19971030133127.59634@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029212529.363E-100000@iconoclastic.com>; from sporkl on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 09:31:40PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029212529.363E-100000@iconoclastic.com>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 09:31:40PM +0000, sporkl wrote: > Hello. > > I have been attempting to configure X windows. I have an > ET4000/W32 video card, an SVGA monitor with an hsync of 35.5 Khz and a > vsync of 70 Khz. I have a plain old serial three-button mouse on serial > port one, ttyd0. > > I have configured X to run via the SVGA server, but it doesn't > work. It errors with: > > xf86OpenSyscons: Cannot open /dev/ttyvc (No such file or directory) > > > I don't have a ttyvc. Precisely. > As far as I can tell, it wants a thirteenth virtual terminal for my > twelve. I only have twelve function keys, and when I tried to > configure my kernel to accept thirteen virtual terminals it killed > all my ttyv* and I had to rebuild the kernel again. I am currently > reading all the X docs i can find on my system, and the Complete > FreeBSD X sections. Please send help! X needs a terminal to open the display on. Obviously all of yours have gettys on them, so ttyvc would be the first that it could use. Modify /etc/ttys to change this line: ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure You'll have this set to 'on' in your machine; that's all you need to change. Then send a SIGHUP to init: # kill -1 1 After that, you should be in business. Your X server will be under F10. Greg
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