From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 18:56:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23877 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23870 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10841; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:26:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA02856; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:26:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980406112606.43641@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:26:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Stanaford , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 requests a missing /dev/ttyv4?? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Stanaford on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 02:58:47PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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