From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 7 14:50:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17702 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 14:50:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from halite.westal.com (dolomite.westal.com [206.54.178.2] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17686 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 14:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn.stone@westal.com) Received: from westal.com (fwasc8-111.flash.net [209.30.15.111]) by halite.westal.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA09945; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 16:50:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34DCE4B4.9C35331A@westal.com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 16:48:20 -0600 From: Shawn Stone Organization: The Westal Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Metro X Server (RedHat/Caldera Linux) on FreeBSD References: <199802070102.RAA04953@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I have (what I believe to be) a virtual terminal problem. Here it is: I purchased Caldera OpenLinux over a year ago, before I was made to realize that FreeBSD is a better product. One thing I did like about Caldera, though (and about RedHat, for that matter) was the X server. The only real reason I prefer MetroX is that it supports my card in 16-bit color, whereas XFree86 does not. (I would either have to replace my ISA card with a PCI one or revoce all but 14MB of RAM.) So I installed the Linux libraries, compiled Linux support into the kernel, installed the rpm package, then rpm'ed the Metro X server onto my system. All of that went without a glitch. Then I tried to configure the server and got the following error (contents of /var/log/Xerrors): Metro-X Version 3.1.2 Copyright (c) 1990-1996 by Metro Link Inc. Copyright (c) 1989-1994 by M.I.T. Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by X Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Read mouse Serial_MouseMan from Xconfig Loading /usr/lib/X11/Metro/modules/libsvga.a Fatal server error: Can not find open VT Well, I remembered that Linux usually setup 6 virtual terminals instead of FreeBSD's 4, so I used MAKEDEV to create an additional 3 VTs (one to grow on!), edited my /etc/ttys to include them and turn them all on (as in Linux), then SIGHUPed init. No go - same error. Edited /etc/ttys again and turned the last 4 back off, restarted init, and same error. I even created symlinks to the devices named tty0-tty6 (as in Linux), and again gained no ground. (All right, I admit that I don't really know whether that last move was the smartest in the world. Can a symlink actually work with a character device?) So now I'm tossing up my hands and asking you guys: Can this be done? Or am I consigned to either buying a different card or settling for 256 colors? Thanks in advance for any help you can give on this. ====================================================================== Shawn Stone ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't know of a man, woman, or child alive today who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage!" -- David Letterman ======================================================================