On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:06, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > On 2004-08-13T15:50:46-0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:01:08PM +0000, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > I think kkldload mem is the answer... > > > I borowed a passing laptop and looked in teh archives.. > > > > > > how come UPDATING doesn't mention this... > > > > > > it mentions mem but it should mention vga too. > > > > s/vga/io/? The previous respondent mentioned that the /dev/vga error > > from X is bogus. > > At first, I didn't have 'io' or 'mem' in my kernel config file, and xorg > complained about missing /dev/io. So, not knowing that I needed 'mem', > too, I added 'io' to my kernel config file and rebuilt/installed. After > reboot, xorg then complained about missing /dev/vga. This stumped me, > so I went to cvsweb and compared the GENERIC that my customer kernel was > based on versus the latest GENERIC to see what "GENERIC" stuff I was > missing. The only thing that was missing was 'mem'. So, I added mem, > did the dance again, and now xorg works like a champ. > > FYI, even with 'io' and 'mem' in my kernel, there is still no /dev/vga, > but xorg doesn't seem to mind anymore. I haven't gone through the code, but I'm assuming that /dev/vga on something (linux?) provides the capabilities that the normal /dev/io did, and it was trying to use that as a fallback. The error, rather than saying "your /dev/io or /dev/vga are missing" only reported the last one. -- Eric Anholt eta_at_lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Aug 13 2004 - 22:19:43 UTC
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