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From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: trouble with syscons-0.2 and xfree86
Date: Wed,  6 Oct 1993 08:28:59 -0400
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 6-Oct-93 Re: trouble
with syscons-0... by Mark_Weaver@brown.edu 
> 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.

I did this.  I have tried making a link, a symlink, and making it
another node with mknod, none of which worked.  I also tried fetching
the xserver binaries again (just in case) and that didn't change
anything either.

alex