From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 3 9:31: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97BEB14C42 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejc@bazzle.com) Received: (qmail 72160 invoked from network); 3 Aug 1999 16:30:26 -0000 Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (206.103.246.189) by gargoyle.bazzle.com with SMTP; 3 Aug 1999 16:30:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:30:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware X11 and -current In-Reply-To: <199908031618.JAA22028@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :--0-169768575-933691257=:71237 > :Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > : > :Hello > : I have been using FreeBSD under vmware for a few weeks now, > :running 3.2R. Everything has been running good including X11. I upgraded > :to -current and the linux XF86_vmware server stopped working. When I try > :and start the xserver I get an error "xf86OpenConsole: cannot open > :/dev/tty0. I'm running -current as of 8/1/99 with the latest linux_base > :port. > > Try creating a softlink from /dev/console to /dev/tty0. > > -Matt > Hello Matt I tried that, it then can't find /dev/tty4. If I also symlink tty4 it will panic. Lets see if I can get a dump. Ideas? Eric Chet -> ejc@bazzle.com ejc@FreeBSD.ORG echet@cms.cendant.com Senior Object Oriented Developer - Specializing in OOA, OOD, C++, Java, CORBA Kenpo JuJitsu the Ultimate in Self Defense, Tai Chi for Life cat man du : where UNIX geeks go when they die To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message