On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Ralf Ackermann wrote: > I'm trying to get VGA output on a MIPSel system (MeshCube > http://www.meshcube.org) to work. > The system uses a miniPCI ATI Rage VGA card (=> problem does not get > initialized due to lack of system BIOS => hopefully initialized by int10 > XFree86 x86 emulator code). So virtual consoles are not working. > I've attached an USB mouse and keyboard but fail to start X due to > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) > - 2. Any hints on the missing /dev/tty0 stuff? (this is maybe > related to the console / keyboard stuff?) Yep, that's the current virtual console. Do you have CONFIG_VT enabled? If yes, probably the VC initialization failed due to vgacon failing. In that case, you can try enabling dummycon (and hope X can wake up your graphics card). BTW, there exists (depending on your kernel version) code in atyfb to initialize the RAGE XL. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
