Re: XFree86 problems
Thanks, that was just the ticket. It's going beautifully now.
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* Robert Kerr *
* Robert_Kerr@byu.edu *
* http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr *
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* and men are that they might *
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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
>
>
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