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From: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Subject: Re: trouble with syscons-0.2 and xfree86
In-Reply-To: "Alex R.N. Wetmore"'s message of Tue, 5 Oct 1993 17:54:31 -0400
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 03:54:02 GMT
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In article <IggSoLO00iV04=c1J7@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I just installed syscons-0.2 on my netbsd 0.9 system. It works alright,
> but xfree86 won't work (I am using 1.3-u1). It worked fine w/ pccons...
Make sure that /dev/vga exists. Preferably, it should be a link to
the vt you run X from. If not, try doing that and then see how well
it works.
If all else fails, XFree86 2.0 has special support for syscons, and in
fact I have tested the beta myself with syscons-0.2 and netbsd 0.9.
Mark
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