Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:34:05 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" <freebsd-current@gargantuan.com> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: /dev/vga dissappeared? Message-ID: <20040814003405.GC75428@gargantuan.com> In-Reply-To: <1092442780.1072.116.camel@leguin> References: <1092434090.21417.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040813220108.802DB16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20040813225046.GA71613@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040814000620.GB75428@gargantuan.com> <1092442780.1072.116.camel@leguin>
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On 2004-08-13T17:19:40-0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:06, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> > At first, I didn't have 'io' or 'mem' in my kernel config file, and xorg
> > complained about missing /dev/io. So, not knowing that I needed 'mem',
> > too, I added 'io' to my kernel config file and rebuilt/installed. After
> > reboot, xorg then complained about missing /dev/vga. This stumped me,
> > so I went to cvsweb and compared the GENERIC that my customer kernel was
> > based on versus the latest GENERIC to see what "GENERIC" stuff I was
> > missing. The only thing that was missing was 'mem'. So, I added mem,
> > did the dance again, and now xorg works like a champ.
> >=20
> > FYI, even with 'io' and 'mem' in my kernel, there is still no /dev/vga,
> > but xorg doesn't seem to mind anymore.
>=20
> I haven't gone through the code, but I'm assuming that /dev/vga on
> something (linux?) provides the capabilities that the normal /dev/io
> did, and it was trying to use that as a fallback. The error, rather
> than saying "your /dev/io or /dev/vga are missing" only reported the
> last one.
I wouldn't know what I was looking at if I did look at the code, but
xorg did complain about missing /dev/io before I added 'io' to the
kernel config. Then, xorg complained about missing /dev/vga. So, it
seems to me that adding 'io' fixed the 'missing /dev/io' message, and
adding 'mem' fixed the 'missing /dev/vga' issue, with regards to xorg.
You guys are teaching me a lot! :)
--=20
Mike
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