Re: can't MAKEDEV kbd for XFree86

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:31:51PM -0500, Robert Amble wrote:
> I recently installed the hurd on a partition on my vaio sr17 laptop, 
> after running initial.sh, developer.sh and gui.sh I tried to run 
> XFree86 and it could not find the keyboard. Checking the FAQ I found I 
> needed to MAKEDEV kbd for X to work, only when I do this it complains 
> about an unknown device instead. I am working off the HURD-H1 cd image 
> copied to an extfs partition for the install. I want to help with 
> development on the hurd, but it would be nice to have WindowMaker 
> available.

The Hurd package in the H1 CD set is missing some patches, sorry for that.
Upgrade the package to the latest one in the ftp archive at ftp.debian.org.
(You can use apt).

Thanks,
Marcus

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