Re: XFree86 problems
>I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since
>I mave a Matrox Mystique. Everything was going well, until I ran startx,
>whereupon I received the following error message:
>
>fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
<snippage>
The server is telling you the problem! Login, or su, to root, and cd to
/dev. Execute this command:
./MAKEDEV tty0
I had the same problem, but running the above fixed things nicely.
Luck,
Jason
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