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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: XFree86: Where is /dev/kbd?
Message-ID: <1993May25.065631.25673@gmd.de>
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References: <1993May24.191532.23080@reed.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 06:56:31 GMT
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In article <1993May24.191532.23080@reed.edu>, bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney) writes:
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|>
|> I recently upgraded my 0.1 port with the new GENERICISA kernel from
|> agate, and installed the codrv version of XFree86-1.2. When I tried to
|> start it up, I got a "Cannot open /dev/kbd" error, and I see I have no
|> such entry in my /dev. MAKEDEV doesn't know about it. I assume the kernel
|> supports it, and I need to do some magic mknod to create it.
|> Could someone let me know if that's so, and if it is what the major
|> and minor device numbers are?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Robert
Depends on where you have placed the codrv entries in conf.c.
The assigned slot for codrv is 21, but in former times I recommended using
the last free number that time, so some documentation may say slot 15.
So make or
mknod /dev/kbd c 15 0 mknod /dev/kbd 21 0
mknod /dev/vga c 15 128 mknod /dev/vga 21 128
BTW: Similar things are written in the (admittedly bad) README for keycap/codrv,
and in the XFree86 README.386bsd.
Hope that helps
Holger
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