Very Computer

I've just installed Slackware and while trying to get set up for
XFree86, I issued 'X -probeonly' to see what I could see about my
Matrox Millennium. The output file I specified contained all the
information I was expecting right up to the point where it said:

"Fatal Server Error:  /dev/console does not exist"

or something to that effect. Any clues?

Eric-

I recently installed the Slackware version of Linux
for the 2.0 kernel.  I bought the info-magic cdset
including Slackware96 (3.1) I spent hours last night
until I concluded that there was not /dev/console in
my /dev dir.  Have you had any success solving this
issue?  Furthermore have you run into any other probs
with the Slackware installation?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  If I find
anything out I will try and email you the info.

Pesh

MAKEDEV console

Michael
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: > "Fatal Server Error:  /dev/console does not exist"

Well, indeed there is no /dev/console in a lot (if not all) of the Slackware '96
distributions. Here is how to fix it:

as root, go to /dev and type:

./MAKEDEV console

after a few moments, all your problems will be solved. I will leave the
explanations for you to discover yourselves.

P.S. The Matrox Millenium currently is not supported by XFree86. You'll have
to wait a few months.

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Jeremy Worrells                 3Com/Primary Access

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