Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 18:40:14 +0300 From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@Root.COM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV Message-ID: <HDUTTvkiR1@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199412070858.TAA31027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:58:28 %2B1100 References: <199412070858.TAA31027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199412070858.TAA31027@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
writes:
>>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.
Please, NO LINKS in /dev! dev_mkdb+reverse_name_lookup can produce
very strange results, moreover X works well without any /dev/vga.
Creating /dev/vga should be removed as I did before.
--
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