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From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen)
Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console?
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 00:04:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk>
References: <CK9BDx.4nB@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com>
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hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

>In article <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> cline+@CS.CMU.EDU (Kenneth Cline) writes:
>>Syscons gives you the ability to switch between different
>>sessions on your console.  Another advantage over pccons
>>is that it works with X11 (I couldn't get pccons to work
>>properly with XFree86 (2.0) and FreeBSD (1.0 release), so
>>I gave up).

>Yeah, well pccons should be fixed so it can work with XFree86.

Funny. I have no problems using XFree86 on NetBSD-current with either
pcvt/syscons or pccons. 

A bug in FreeBSD ?

regards
kim
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