From owner-cvs-etc Wed Dec 7 08:25:32 1994 Return-Path: cvs-etc-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA13467 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 08:18:23 -0800 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA13385; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 08:16:17 -0800 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA23778 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:08:12 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA00546; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 18:40:15 +0300 To: Bruce Evans , dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@Root.COM References: <199412070858.TAA31027@godzilla.zeta.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199412070858.TAA31027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:58:28 +1100 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 18:40:14 +0300 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.29 FreeBSD] From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV Lines: 25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1067 Sender: cvs-etc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Andrew A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: -- temp down -- : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849