If makedev and the source for vcsa1 are already on the machine it may be
necessary to build vcsa1 using makedev.



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On Sat, 18 Feb 2023, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi Storm,
>
> > $ sudo cat /dev/vcsa
> > cat: /dev/vcsa1: No such device or address
>
> That error is errno ENXIO, see errno(3).
>
> One view of the kernel source code has vcs_open() return that errno
> under some conditions, but I can't help more than that.
>
>     https://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v6.0.9/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c#L744
>     if (currcons && !vc_cons_allocated(currcons - 1))
>         ret = -ENXIO;
>
>

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