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From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0
Date: 8 Feb 1994 16:27:26 -0500
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In article <1994Feb8.160011.28152@penny.cs.fredonia.edu>,
Jin Mazumdar <mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu> wrote:
>
>	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.

I recompiled xconsole to look at /dev/vga and this problem went away for me...
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