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Originally posted by heinb
I am trying to run openwin on Solaris 5.8, but get an error:
/dev/fb: No such file or directory
There is no device in /dev called fb, and I want to know how you create this?
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This is what the /dev/fb* devices are on my system:
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redhead@rimfaxe{51} ~> uname -a
SunOS rimfaxe 5.8 Generic_108528-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
redhead@rimfaxe{52} ~> ll /dev/fb*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Aug 30 17:34 /dev/fb0 -> fbs/gfxp0
/dev/fbs:
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 42 Aug 30 17:34 gfxp0 -> ../../devices/pci@1f,4000/TSI,gfxp@4:gfxp0
redhead@rimfaxe{53} ~> ll /devices/pci@1f,4000/TSI,gfxp@4:gfxp0
crw------- 1 root 68, 0 Aug 30 17:34 /devices/pci@1f,4000/TSI,gfxp@4:gfxp0
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This means, the actual
/dev/fb0 is only a link to
/dev/fbs/gfxp0, which also is a link to
/devices/pci@1f,400/TSI,gfxp@4:gfxp0
The device is a charactor device, which you would make with the
mknod(1M) command. And from my output, you can see, the device has a major of 68 and a minor of 0, so if you were to create this specific device the command would be:
mknod /devices/pci@1f,4000/TSI,gfxp@4:gfxp0 c 68 0
