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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ub!penny!mary!mazumdar From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0 Message-ID: <1994Feb8.160011.28152@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> Sender: news@penny.cs.fredonia.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu> <2j892u$cqt@sparc10.entropic.com> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 16:00:11 GMT Lines: 24 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. Xconsole says it cannot open the console device probably because getty is not running on it. If I specify that xconsole use the file /dev/vga then there is some strange interaction between my console window and other windows. Does syscons cure all these problems? -- Jin Mazumdar (internet:) mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S. <<< >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<< >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459 <<<