XFree86 error

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Jeremiah McElroy wrote:

>I just installed Fedora Core 1 as a clean install.  When I try to start X using the PowerVR drivers for my graphics card (which I downloaded and installed), I see the following error in my XFree86.0.log file: 
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>(++) using VT number 7
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>Fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Input/output error)
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>I have never seen this problem in the past.  I used to run Red Hat 9.0 and I also built the drivers by hand.  I have attached my XF86Config file in case that is needed.
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>Thanks,
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>Jeremiah McElroy
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I had the same problem yesterday.. A machine that I had installed three 
days earlier simply started to have this error.. To make a long story 
short , I checked the device permissions , so it would match the 
permissions of the other ttys and reconfigured X... After some fight it 
worked fine...

Pedro Macedo