Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:54:51 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/vga dissappeared? Message-ID: <1092434090.21417.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20040813215058.6E75416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040813215058.6E75416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:50, Julian Elischer wrote: > So, I upgraded everything today > and I no longer have X because it requires /dev/vga > which has dissappeared out of /dev > > As I have no X I have no browser (comments about lynx will > be ignored ;-) > so I'm having trouble looking up resources to see what may have happenned. > > The vga driver reports as having found a device in dmesg > but there is no such device in /dev. > > I recall a couple of emails on the topic a while ago but I can't > look them up now... > can someone let me know what the resolution was? > should I be adding a symlink to something somewhere? > > is this a known problem? I don't have a /dev/vga on -CURRENT either, but X works fine for me. Perhaps you forgot to load the io and mem kernel modules (and don't have them compiled into your kernel). Joe > > Julian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBHTiqb2iPiv4Uz4cRAh5HAKCf4r63y7lFWVaQkRw4ogrpFFNB6ACfeAY5 ynhsgv4pR7Q3igEX1byUxGE= =jyVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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