no /dev/vga on FreeBSD-6.x ?

Dejan Lesjak dejan.lesjak at ijs.si
Thu Sep 1 02:52:35 GMT 2005


On Thursday 01 of September 2005 04:31, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've just a built a fresh xorg-server on a fresh install of 6.0.
>
> The X-server self-configured properly and found the neomagic card
> in this laptop.
>
> Unfortunately, whenever the X-server tries to start up, it dies
> complaining about the absence of /dev/vga ...
>
> "device vga" is certainly in the kernel and vga0 is listed in
> dmesg.boot.
>
> Please, advice. Thanks!

Do you have "device io" and "device mem" in the kernel? See also:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-August/034115.html


Dejan


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