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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /dev/mouse or /dev/tty00 for Xfree86?
Date: 8 Apr 1996 11:22:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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spidaman@nntp.best.com (Ian Kallen) writes:
(Your message is close to be unreadable.)
> enough it bombs out on me when I try to startx. So it was suggested that
> running sh MAKEDEV tty00 in /dev would fix it but /dev/MAKEDEV
> does'nt appear to _do_ anything, when i run that command,
> ls -l /dev/tty00
> returns nothing. So what next? Do I need to reinstall XFree86?? I
It's actually /dev/ttyd0.
^
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cheers, J"org
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