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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console? Date: 30 Jan 1994 02:40:53 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CK9BDx.4nB@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk>, Kim Andersen <kim@dde.dk> wrote: >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. There are (known) problems with the way pccons and XFree86 interact. For example, try the 'kill -HUP syslogd.pid' when running pccons and watch the console hang. (This also happens in syscons 1.0, but I don't know about pcvt) For this very reason the FreeBSD team has not spent alot of time working on fixing the bugs in pccons when better console drivers exist. In FreeBSD 1.1 syscons will probably become the default console driver just because it is written better and provides more functionality. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.