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Re: XFree86 problems



Thanks, that was just the ticket.  It's going beautifully now.

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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:

> 
> 
> >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
> 
> 
> --
> Jason Daniels -- bd733@rgfn.epcc.edu
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> 


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