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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD syscons and X (was Re: FreeBSD Syscons MDA/HGA bug + fix)
In-Reply-To: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za's message of Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06: 33:19 GMT
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References: <1993Oct17.073337.8151@news.csuohio.edu> <JKH.93Oct17171239@whisker.lotus.ie>
	<g89r4222.750917912@kudu> <JKH.93Oct18192832@whisker.lotus.ie>
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 00:20:46 GMT
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>XFree86 1.3.
>
>I'm just not sure if I've set up syscons properly though.  (/dev
>entries etc)

# ls -l /dev/ttyv* /dev/vga

crw-------    1 root      12,   0 Oct 19 09:11 /dev/ttyv0
crw-------    1 root      12,   1 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv1
crw-------    1 root      12,   2 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv2
crw-------    1 root      12,   3 Oct 17 22:59 /dev/ttyv3
crw-------    1 root      12,   4 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv4
crw-------    1 root      12,   5 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv5
crw-------    1 root      12,   6 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv6
crw-------    1 root      12,   7 Jul 30 01:01 /dev/ttyv7
lrwxr-xr-x    1 jkh            10 Aug  3 22:43 /dev/vga -> /dev/ttyv0

# egrep ttyv\|vga /etc/ttys

vga	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	off secure
ttyv0	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
ttyv1	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
ttyv2	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
ttyv3	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
#ttyv4	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
#ttyv5	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
#ttyv6	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure
#ttyv7	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"	cons25	on secure

The entries for /dev/vga, exactly as listed, are IMPORTANT!

				Jordan
--
(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.