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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console?
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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.

A fine capability, if you want multiple session capability there as well
as within X.  To me, it seemed like overkill.

>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).

Try harder -- though you shouldn't have to try really hard.  I'm
sending this message from a machine running FreeBSD 1.0.2 and XFree86
2.0.  The most important thing I found was to remember to coordinate
turning off getty (for /dev/vga) and launching xdm in rc.local.  As
long as I remember to keep those two things in sync all works well.
When Xdm and getty are both enabled, they get into a war over the
keyboard and it "locks up".
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