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From: veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Missing info on how to install Codrv Kernel for XFree86
Message-ID: <1993Mar5.082925.23813@gmd.de>
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References: <RICH.93Mar4234107@omicron.Rice.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 08:29:25 GMT
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In article <RICH.93Mar4234107@omicron.Rice.edu>, rich@Rice.edu
(Richard Murphey) writes:
|> Several people have asked how to install the codrv kernel and
|> XFree86
|> 1.2 found on agate.berkeley.edu. README.386BSD didn't tell people
|> how
|> to make the devices.
|>
|> If you install kernel-1.2.codrv-fix-1.tar.Z, create new /dev
|> entries:
|> mknod /dev/kbd c 15 0
|> mknod /dev/vga c 15 128
|> rm /dev/kbd /dev/vga /dev/pccons
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You don't want to remove the just created device special files again,
do you?
|> Put /dev/console rather than /dev/vga in /etc/ttys. With Holger's
|> driver xdm will work with /dev/console even when invoked from
|> /etc/rc.
|>
|> This will go into README.386BSD and I'll upload a revision to
|> agate soon. Rich
There is something more to add, which will have importance which the
next
patchkit versions. One of the latest patches reserves empty slots in
conf.c to be filled by addable drivers. The major number 15 is
reserved
for a part of Julian's SCSI driver. Codrv has been assigned the
number
0x15, that is decimal 21. Future releases of codrv will adopt this
convention.
IF YOU HAVE THE PATCHKIT-0.2.1 OR LATER, and compile your kernel
yourself, please
add the necessary cdevsw entry for codrv in slot 0x15 / 21, and make
the
devices in the following way:
rm -f /dev/kbd /dev/vga
mknod /dev/kbd c 21 0
mknod /dev/vga c 21 128
IF YOU USE A PREBUILT KERNEL such as the ones available with
XFree86-1.2:
these kernels probably do not follow the latest convention; please
follow
the instructions in an enclosed README how to create the proper
devices.
This should be added to README.386bsd as well. Rich?
Holger
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