Re: kdrive needs /dev/tty0

Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Around 1 o'clock on Jan 15, "Kurt V. Hindenburg" wrote:

> It works now.   I'm not sure why /dev/tt0 is needed (doesn't seem to 
> matter what it is linked to), but without it kdrive won't start.  At 
> least now I can play around.  :-)

Ah.  Kdrive uses /dev/tty0 to make an IOCTL to find what VT to run on.  
You can tell the server what vt to use on the command line; that will 
avoid the need to find the first free one.

-keith
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