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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!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: Shutting down XFree86-2.0 Date: 11 Feb 1994 10:56:54 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2jfo9m$aki@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu> <2j892u$cqt@sparc10.entropic.com> <1994Feb8.160011.28152@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Feb8.160011.28152@penny.cs.fredonia.edu>, Jin Mazumdar <mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu> wrote: > Using the console as the device, XFreeBSD would leave my >system unusable after exiting X even though I redirected my output >from xinit to a file. > > Changing the device console to vga and running getty on it >instead, I can exit X and have a useable machine. The file name >completion feature is messed up but a re login cures that. You shouldn't be running a getty on /dev/console. :-( > Xconsole says it cannot open the console device probably >because getty is not running on it. Nope, you don't have permission to open the device as a regular user. >If I specify that xconsole use >the file /dev/vga then there is some strange interaction between my >console window and other windows. Because xconsole *should* be opening /dev/console. > Does syscons cure all these problems? Yes, see my other post somewhere in the thread. 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.