Problems with Display

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Brian Rudy wrote:

> Good day;
> I am having some difficulty with the installation of version 5.3 on a Ultra 
> 60 system.
>
> It seems like everything goes fine but, the console display goes south. 
> Everything else seems to be working ok but, the console isn't.  Remote access 
> to this box is working fine.
>
> Here's the last group of lines from dmesg:
>
> Apr 19 06:02:33 sun syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib 
> /usr/local/lib
> Starting local daemons:
> ..
> Updating motd
> ..
> Starting sshd.
> Initial sparc64 initialization:
> ..
> Additional ABI support:
> ..
> Starting cron.
> Local package initialization:
> NTP
> ..
> Additional TCP options:
> ..
> Starting inetd.
> Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
>
> Tue Apr 19 06:02:37 EDT 2005
> Apr 19 06:02:37 sun getty[423]: open /dev/screen: No such file or directory
>
>
> There is no /dev/screen file but, there is a /dev/screen:r1280x1024x60 file
>
> I tried making a link to this file in hopes it would fix it but, after a 
> reboot, my link was gone.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you
>

What your going to be looking into is devd/devfs somewhere in "/etc/*"
in order to make sure the correct file is loaded youll have to change
some configurations with that daemon so it creates the device you need
upon bootup. Now if I had a 5.4 system running I would beable to look
into it further and supply you with more information. But thats a good
start at least somewhere so your not left hanging.

Good luck.

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Msg-Id: 20050427 20:43 UTC

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