Re: problems regarding XFree

Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:09:24 -0700 (MST)

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Yogesh Kumar wrote:

    This is yogesh working in a private firm,developing an X environment
for custom made PMC board.but i not able to compile the XFree source.the
following is the error displayed when i run XFree -configure

i get 2 error messages
1)xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT
2)xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)

XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.24 ppc [ELF]
Build Date: 03 March 2006
	Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Dec  7 09:51:13 1919

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

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can you please tell what could be wrong and or am i missing something

The Linux kernel you are running likely needs to be reconfigured with 

CONFIG_VT=y.

Marc.

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