From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 3 10:43:25 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 ABE3914E9B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejc@bazzle.com) Received: (qmail 72852 invoked from network); 3 Aug 1999 17:42:58 -0000 Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (206.103.246.189) by gargoyle.bazzle.com with SMTP; 3 Aug 1999 17:42:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:42:58 -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: <199908031645.JAA22272@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: > :> :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? > > Symlinking /dev/tty4 to what? You should be symlinking /dev/tty4 to > /dev/ttyv4. It will panic if I symlink tty4 to ttyv4 or console. > > I'm not up on the linux emulation so the best I can do is provide > general ideas. Thanks for your help, this is the first time I have had to look at the linux emulation code. Thanks, ejc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message