Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:03:49 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> To: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware X11 and -current Message-ID: <19990804000348.A25514@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908031219200.72024-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com>; from Eric J. Chet on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:30:25PM -0400 References: <199908031618.JAA22028@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908031219200.72024-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:30:25PM -0400, Eric J. Chet wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > :--0-169768575-933691257=:71237 > > :Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > : > > :Hello > > : I have been using FreeBSD under vmware for a few weeks now, > > :running 3.2R. Everything has been running good including X11. I upgraded > > :to -current and the linux XF86_vmware server stopped working. When I try > > :and start the xserver I get an error "xf86OpenConsole: cannot open > > :/dev/tty0. I'm running -current as of 8/1/99 with the latest linux_base > > :port. > > > > Try creating a softlink from /dev/console to /dev/tty0. > > > > -Matt > > > Hello Matt > > I tried that, it then can't find /dev/tty4. If I also symlink > tty4 it will panic. Lets see if I can get a dump. It needs ttyp0 as tty0 and so on. I tried it myself under current and got the X11 window. but it complained that it can't find /proc/cpuinfo. I never beleaved that it would work after that. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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