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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: FreeBSD syscons and X (was Re: FreeBSD Syscons MDA/HGA bug + fix) In-Reply-To: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za's message of Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06: 33:19 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct20012317@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <1993Oct17.073337.8151@news.csuohio.edu> <JKH.93Oct17171239@whisker.lotus.ie> <g89r4222.750917912@kudu> <JKH.93Oct18192832@whisker.lotus.ie> <g89r4222.751012399@kudu> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 00:20:46 GMT Lines: 37 >XFree86 1.3. > >I'm just not sure if I've set up syscons properly though. (/dev >entries etc) # ls -l /dev/ttyv* /dev/vga crw------- 1 root 12, 0 Oct 19 09:11 /dev/ttyv0 crw------- 1 root 12, 1 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv1 crw------- 1 root 12, 2 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv2 crw------- 1 root 12, 3 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv3 crw------- 1 root 12, 4 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv4 crw------- 1 root 12, 5 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv5 crw------- 1 root 12, 6 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv6 crw------- 1 root 12, 7 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv7 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jkh 10 Aug 3 22:43 /dev/vga -> /dev/ttyv0 # egrep ttyv\|vga /etc/ttys vga "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure The entries for /dev/vga, exactly as listed, are IMPORTANT! Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.