From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 12:20:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25163 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de (freebsd.first.gmd.de [192.35.153.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25063 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ats@localhost) by freebsd.first.gmd.de (8.7.3/8.6.12) id WAA03360; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:17:50 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199602212117.WAA03360@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Untitled To: amg@crl.com (August Grammas) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:17:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602210219.AA18487@crl14.crl.com> from "August Grammas" at Feb 20, 96 06:19:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > When I invoked X by the xinit command, it gave me the message: > unable to open /dev/ttyv4. > > I used mknod to create /dev/ttyv4 and made the appropriate > entry in /etc/ttys and then I got the error message: > unable to open /dev/ttyv5! You should not edit /etc/ttys or at least don't let a getty run on it. X needs a free ttyvx. Make sure at least one available ttyvx is marked "off" in /etc/ttys. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe