Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:26:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Richard Stanaford <richard@cube3.erinet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 requests a missing /dev/ttyv4?? Message-ID: <19980406112606.43641@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405144528.20560A-100000@cube3.erinet.com>; from Richard Stanaford on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 02:58:47PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405144528.20560A-100000@cube3.erinet.com>
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On Sun, 5 April 1998 at 14:58:47 -0400, Richard Stanaford wrote: > > Hey all! Having a blast with FreeBSD. I got so fed up with Microsoft I > decided to turn my desktop machine at work in to an X workstation. So I > got FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE and I am dual booting with Win95 for those poor > souls who might need to use my machine while I am not there. :-) The > installation went without a hitch and I set to getting X up and running, > doing the best I can with a Trident 9750 AGP card. *Sigh* That is another > story.. :-/ > I get XFree86 configured and tried 'startx' and it screamed and yelled > about not being able to find /dev/ttyv4. Humm.. well, I just used 'mknod' > to create it and it made X happy, no big deal. I was just wondering if > any of you out there have run in to the same thing, or was this isolated > to me, possibly something I missed in the setup? This probably relates to your /etc/ttys file, which usually contains: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure I'm guessing that you've turned ttyv3 from 'off' to 'on'. X needs one to run the display in, so it will then go looking for ttyv4. The GENERIC kernel has 12 virtual terminals, but only four device nodes. I've entered a PR. In the meantime, you can fix it by running # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV vty Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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