[Nix-dev] Problem booting the new nixos kernel

[Marco Maggesi]

Thank you Lluís and Tony for yours suggestions.


On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Tony White wrote:

>> Hi Marco,
> if it's not in there already, try adding something like this to your
> xserver config in configuration.nix along with your existing settings
> :


Sorry, I didn't mention that, but my favorite resolution is already
specified in the configuration.nix (and it worked fine so far).  My
xserver configuration is as follows:

     xserver = {
       enable = true;
       exportConfiguration = true;
       videoDriver = "vesa";
       sessionType = "";
       windowManager = "none";
       sessionStarter = "";
       resolutions =
         [ { x=1440; y=900; } { x=1152; y=864; } { x=1024; y=768; }  
{ x=800; y=600; } ];
       extraMonitorSettings = ''
         Modeline "1440x900" 106.5000 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909  
934 +HSync -VSync
       '';
     };

I suspect that all my problems are related to this error (found in X. 
0.log):
-------------------------------------------------------------------
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 7


Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (No such file or  
directory)

(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
-------------------------------------------------------------------

But I don't understand which file is actually missing.
In /dev I see all the tty* files as usual.

Marco