kdrive needs /dev/tty0
Keith Packard
keithp@keithp.com
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:39:57 +1030
Around 1 o'clock on Jan 15, "Kurt V. Hindenburg" wrote:
> 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. :-)
Ah. Kdrive uses /dev/tty0 to make an IOCTL to find what VT to run on.
You can tell the server what vt to use on the command line; that will
avoid the need to find the first free one.
-keith