On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:43:09PM +0000, Martyn J. Pearce wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm currently experiencing a sharp lack of joy whilst trying to install XFree > 4.2.1 on a HP Omnibook 6000. > > I'm continually hitting > > VT_GETMODE failed > > which is somewhat cryptic. I can find nothing on this via google, and nothing > on the XFree86 site (modulo a similar help message).
To answer my own issue, I eventually tracked this to a malformed /dev/tty entry (/dev/tty3), which had somehow transmogrified to a plain file. rerunning MAKEDEV tty3 did the trick. Mx. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
