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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!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: 1 Feb 1994 18:40:38 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2im7n6$agv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk> <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CKIuou.7B5@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CKIuou.7B5@nas.nasa.gov>, Dave Tweten <tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >In article <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>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) > >I'm sending this follow-up from an xterm on my FreeBSD 1.0.2 system >running pccons and XFree86 2.0. I read the original article, opened an >xterm on my local machine, ran the commands and no bad things happened. Are you running an xconsole which keeps /dev/console open? If so then that may be saving bad things from happening. Also, what happens when you quit X and try to use job control on the tty? 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.