x on serial console

Prashant J Zaveri pjz1607 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 06:33:54 PDT 2007


Well you need to add the device entries when you make your root file system.

On 10/23/07, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:43:29PM +0530, jenny tc wrote:
> >   I already set CONFIG_VT=y . But I couldn't see any /dev/tty* s . An the X
> > is crashing with error  "xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 device
> > =(null) (No such file or directory)"
> >
> > I enabled the following VT settings in the kernel
> >
> > CONFIG_VT=y
> > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> > CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
> > CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
>
> Sounds like your /dev lacks the necessary devices.  Use MAKEDEV or
> similar to create them.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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Thanks
Prashant



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