On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > So, I upgraded everything today and I no longer have X because it > requires /dev/vga which has dissappeared out of /dev > > As I have no X I have no browser (comments about lynx will be ignored > ;-) so I'm having trouble looking up resources to see what may have > happenned. > > The vga driver reports as having found a device in dmesg but there is no > such device in /dev. > > I recall a couple of emails on the topic a while ago but I can't look > them up now... can someone let me know what the resolution was? should > I be adding a symlink to something somewhere? > > is this a known problem? I think there's a bug in XFree86 where it complains that /dev/vga is missing, but it means /dev/io is missing. Mark recently modified the kernel so that you need a "device io" in order to get /dev/io, so you probably need to tweak your kernel configuration to reflect recent changes to GENERIC. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee ResearchReceived on Fri Aug 13 2004 - 20:01:20 UTC
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