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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Cannot open /dev/kbd when running Xfree error
In-Reply-To: chafey@ecst.csuchico.edu's message of 9 Mar 93 20:16:18 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.93Mar9150823@omicron.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
University
References: <1nituiINNied@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 21:08:23 GMT
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In article <1nituiINNied@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> chafey@ecst.csuchico.edu (Chris Hafey) writes:
Hello All,
When I run startx, I get a fatal server error: Cannot open /dev/kbd.
I couldn't find any reference to setting up this device and it isn't
standard as far as I can tell. Can someone point me in the right direction?
If you installed kernel-1.2.codrv-fix-1.tar.Z, create new /dev
entries:
rm /dev/kbd /dev/vga /dev/pccons
mknod /dev/kbd c 15 0
mknod /dev/vga c 15 128
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.
Rich