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