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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:15:06 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, chain@110.net
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux.h linux_ioctl.c 
Message-ID:  <199808311415.OAA01145@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:55:03 MST." <199808310655.XAA15032@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> jkh         1998/08/30 23:55:03 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/linux       linux.h linux_ioctl.c 
>   Log:
>   Initial support for using linux X servers under emulation - to use an
>   XFree86 server, users need to create the following links in their
>   /compat/linux/dev directory (assuming kernel configured with 4 VTs).
>   
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  7 Aug 30 22:59 tty0 -> console
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  5 Aug 30 22:45 tty1 -> ttyv0
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  5 Aug 30 22:45 tty2 -> ttyv1
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  5 Aug 30 22:45 tty3 -> ttyv2
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  5 Aug 30 22:45 tty4 -> ttyv3
>   
>   VT switching is still not yet supported. Attempting to switch VT
>   currently will cause Xserver bus error.

Yay!  Thanks for this.

Now, for the vt creation, how would you feel about updating the 
linux_lib port to install these?  You could just create them in the 
Makefile and add them to the PLIST...

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