Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:59:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/vga dissappeared? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040813175831.73100S-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040813215058.6E75416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, 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 think there's a bug in XFree86 where it complains that /dev/vga is missing, but it means /dev/io is missing. Mark recently modified the kernel so that you need a "device io" in order to get /dev/io, so you probably need to tweak your kernel configuration to reflect recent changes to GENERIC. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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