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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2333 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:54:32 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!portal!mykes From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) Subject: Re: Help on XTerm and other problems w/XFree86 1.2 Message-ID: <C33qwB.7Jx@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1993Feb26.001508.11605@wuecl.wustl.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 10:09:42 GMT Lines: 51 I'm pretty new to this unix stuff, but, I think I can answer your questions. At least one. H. Conrad Cunningham (conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu) wrote: : I have just finished installing XFree 1.2 and xview3. : I have the lastest patchkit installed and the kernel rebuilt. : I have the *real* crypt installed and a working copy of xdm : running. : And as long as you are the only one on the system and you are at : the console everything seems to work just fine. BUT as soon as : another user telnets in I ;am unable to start new XTerms. Looks like your kernel doesn't have enough ptys allocated. You can set the # to something higher than the 4 specified in /sys/i386/conf/GENERICISA. I noticed the same thing, when I tried to launch 5 xterms. I REALLY liked the look of xview3, but it never accepted ^h as my erase character, especially after rezizing the xterm window. I found gwm was an excellent substitute, for what it is worth... : Also finger, w, and who do not show the user on the console. : I have noticed that the owner of the device that I use when logging : in at the console remains "root" (ex /dev/ttyp2). When users log : in from remote sites, they become the owner of that device. : Is this a problem? : What is the difference between the pccons driver and the other one. : Which one should I be using? I've seen others post that codrv is superior, but nobody says why, or really how to get it installed... : Any help on any of these problems? : Please, if you email, send to : ken@cs.olemiss.edu : Thanks : A : -- : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : H. Conrad Cunningham | Dept. of Computer & Info. Sci., Univ. of Mississippi : Tel: (601) 232-5358 | 302 Weir Hall, University, MS 38677 U.S.A. : Fax: (601) 232-5459 | Email: cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------