Re: [linux-fbdev] I'm going mad: /dev/tty - device not configured!

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Paolo Scaffardi wrote:
> Please, could you explain me differences between /dev/tty, /dev/tty0 and
> /dev/console?

See Documentation/devices.txt

> I have an embedded linux box with a custom keyboard and a custom frame
> buffer. The keyboard driver sends scancodes to 'handle_scancode' in
> keyboard.c and it is not registered as console, or any type of device.
> 
> At the boot i dont specify anything to boot the kernel.
> 
> It uses correctly both the frame buffer console and the keyboard correctly.
> 
> The only problem is that when using other programs, like GII, that opens
> /dev/tty to access the keyboard, they dont work and report:
> 
>     /dev/tty - device not configured
> 
> Who has to register /dev/tty? How could my keyboard be reached by /dev/tty?

Did you enable CONFIG_VT?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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