x on serial console

[Daniel Stone]

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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