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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: sporkl@dti.net
Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: X problems
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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