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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: HELP me make a /dev/vga for X11 under 386bsd In-Reply-To: rminnich@super.org's message of 24 Sep 92 13:55:39 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Sep25101102@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <tony.717293304@babel.cltr.uq.oz.au> <1992Sep24.135539.20555@super.org> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 16:11:02 GMT Lines: 13 If you have unpacked the the files on agate in incoming/X386/core-*.tar.Z, then the information you need on /dev/vga is in X386/lib/X11/etc/x386install: # create /dev/vga if it doesn't exist if [ ! -c /dev/vga ]; then mknod /dev/vga c 12 0 fi If you want to use x386install, cd to the directory containiung X386 and execute X386/lib/X11/etc/x386install as root. It creates links so that the distribution appears to be in /usr/X386, puts the X man pages in /etc/man.conf and creates /dev/vga if needed, etc. Rich