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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Installing X386 References: <1992Aug30.025058.21358@cc.uow.edu.au> Date: 31 Aug 92 10:39:00 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Keywords: 386bsd, X386, installation Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715257540@du9ds3> Lines: 29 In <1992Aug30.025058.21358@cc.uow.edu.au> pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) writes: >This is obviously a stupid question, but I can't seem to find the answer. I >have tried to install the X386 binaries (X386 version 1.2E 1.0.1) from >agate.berkeley.edu. When I run startx I get an error message to the effect >that the server can't open /dev/vga. This is presumably the device that the >server uses to access the video hardware, but I can't find any info on what >the device numbers need to be. Being foolhardy, I reckoned this had to be >some form of access to the console, so I tried mknod /dev/vga c 0 0. The >result was an instantaneous crash of the whole system. I have not been able >to find any reference to /dev/vga in any of the information I have >collected. Can someone please enlighten me - before I do some serious damage >to my system? >Thanks >Paul Nulsen For the moment, /dev/vga can be made as follows: $ mknod /dev/vga c 12 0 Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"