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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV
Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com,
        davidg@Root.COM
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>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.

In 2.0R the link is created when pc0 is created and pc0 is created for
`sh MAKEDEV all'.  I think creating the link to support old versions
of X is harmless, at least for new versions of X.

Bruce