On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:
> At 5:37 PM -0500 7/14/97, Dave Huang wrote:
> >Try "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV grf2" and see if that helps. The X server I'm
> >running only wants grf0 and grf1 around, but I vaguely remember an older X
> >server wanting grf2 and perhaps grf3 also? Or maybe I'm the one with the
> >older X server :) In any case, use the above to make grf2 and see what
> >happens :)
> 
> This did the trick. Why does this work? something for me to figure out :-)
> btw, where can I find a list of changes between the March95 xserver and the
> january96 one?  If there is none, what are the improvements?

Why does what work? :) Why does the above work for making /dev/grf2?
That's just the way the MAKEDEV script is. It'll create the devices in the
current directory, so you need to "cd /dev" in order for them to be in
/dev. And the arguments to the script are just the device names, not the
full path. (Well, not always the device names, but close... for example,
to make /dev/tty00, you do MAKEDEV tty0. And MAKEDEV pty0 makes a set of
16 pty master/slave pairs -- ptyp[0-f] and ttyp[0-f]. Look at /dev/MAKEDEV
for more info :)

If you're wondering why you need a /dev/grf2 in the first place, I don't
know :) I don't know what the difference is between the March 95 server
and the Jan 96 one either...
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