kdrive needs /dev/tty0

Kurt V. Hindenburg khindenburg@cherrynebula.net
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 01:54:19 -0500


On Thursday 15 January 2004 01:30 am, Keith Packard wrote:
| Around 1 o'clock on Jan 15, "Kurt V. Hindenburg" wrote:
| > I'm running devfs without devfsd under Linux.  I don't have
| > a /dev/tty0.  What would be the equivalent?
|
| I don't know -- kdrive needs to be able to allocate a new virtual
| terminal and then to use it, and generally those are /dev/tty%d
| (where %d is the console number).  What are your virtual terminals
| called on your machine?

Apparently 8 is the next available VT on my system.
% ll tty0 tty8
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 2004-01-15 01:51 tty0 
-> /dev/vc/19
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            9 2004-01-15 01:49 tty8 
-> /dev/vc/8

It works now.   I'm not sure why /dev/tt0 is needed (doesn't seem to 
matter what it is linked to), but without it kdrive won't start.  At 
least now I can play around.  :-)
  Kurt