From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 3 15:11:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2A114E03; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely7.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA29671; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:03:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by cicely7.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA54268; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:02:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA25546; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:03:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:03:49 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: "Eric J. Chet" Cc: Matthew Dillon , marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware X11 and -current Message-ID: <19990804000348.A25514@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <199908031618.JAA22028@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Eric J. Chet on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:30:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:30:25PM -0400, Eric J. Chet wrote: > 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. It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. I never beleaved that it would work after that. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message