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From: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:31:22 +1100 (EST)
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>>>  Make vga if a vty is made.  It may still be required for X.  It got nuked
>>>  with pc*.
>
>>   No, X expects to not to find a /dev/vga if syscons is the console.
>
>Then why does `startx 2>/tmp/z' print the message
>
>    Cannot open /dev/vga: No such file or directory
>
>on the last line of /tmp/z?  (X works fine.  This is under 1.1.5,
>X from the 1.1 cdrom, XF86_SVGA server, syscons, NCONS=4, gettys on
>ttyv[0-3].)

That is a fairly old X (2.0?).  Since version 2.1 XFree86 tries to open
/dev/ttyv0 first, and then /dev/vga if that fails.

Checking on my fairly newly installed FreeBSD 2.0, I see that there is a
/dev/vga sym-link:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5 Nov 29 08:59 /dev/vga -> ttyv0

I didn't create this.

I just tried removing it, and have confirmed that XFree86 (3.1) starts fine
without it.

David