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B-18 TurboGX/TurboGXplus Installation Guide—November 1993
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Example:
2. Enter the following command to verify that a device file already exists for
the desired frame buffer:
If the device file already exists, a message will display similar to the one
shown below. If you see such message, skip steps 3, 4, and 5 and go to step
6. If the system responds with the
“not found”
message, continue with
step 3.
3. Become superuser. Create a device file for your second frame buffer as
shown in the following example. (The second frame buffer is assumed to
be cgsix1.)
This creates a device file for the second frame buffer.
4. Verify the newly created file by typing:
example
%
setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/local/openwin
example# ls -l /dev/cgsix1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 67, 0 Jan 10 1991 /dev/cgsix1
example# cd /dev
example# MAKEDEV cgsix1