Bug#2360: xdm cannot find a free VT

[krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett)]

Stephen Early writes:
>
> Which kernel are you using?  What are the major and minor device numbers
> for your tty devices?  (I'd be very surprised if they were wrong, but I'm
> making wild guesses at the moment.)

mycroft$ uname -a
Linux mycroft 1.3.57 #2 Fri Feb 23 08:06:25 CST 1996 i486
mycroft$ ls -l /dev/tty[0-9]
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   0 Jul 24  1995 /dev/tty0
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   1 Feb 23 11:44 /dev/tty1
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   2 Feb 23 10:37 /dev/tty2
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   3 Feb 23 08:41 /dev/tty3
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   4 Feb 23 08:41 /dev/tty4
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   5 Feb 23 08:41 /dev/tty5
   0 crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   6 Feb 23 08:41 /dev/tty6
   0 crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       4,   7 Feb 20 07:29 /dev/tty7
   0 crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4,   8 May  3  1995 /dev/tty8

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Karl R. Sackett                                        krs@caos.aamu.edu
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