Re: /dev/vga dissappeared?

From: Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus_at_marcuscom.com)
Date: 08/13/04

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    To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:54:51 -0400

    On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:50, Julian Elischer wrote:
    > So, I upgraded everything today
    > and I no longer have X because it requires /dev/vga
    > which has dissappeared out of /dev
    >
    > As I have no X I have no browser (comments about lynx will
    > be ignored ;-)
    > so I'm having trouble looking up resources to see what may have happenned.
    >
    > The vga driver reports as having found a device in dmesg
    > but there is no such device in /dev.
    >
    > I recall a couple of emails on the topic a while ago but I can't
    > look them up now...
    > can someone let me know what the resolution was?
    > should I be adding a symlink to something somewhere?
    >
    > is this a known problem?

    I don't have a /dev/vga on -CURRENT either, but X works fine for me.
    Perhaps you forgot to load the io and mem kernel modules (and don't have
    them compiled into your kernel).

    Joe

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