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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86, no console for non-root user Message-ID: <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Sep22.043733.22702@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Date: 23 Sep 92 05:15:52 GMT Lines: 31 dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes: >In article <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes: >>I've installed XFree86 with the kernel patches and it works >>very well except for the slightly annoying problem that when >>a non-root user starts xconsole, the response is : >> Can't open console. >>Xterm -C does not work either. >> >The user running xconsole or 'xterm -C' must own /dev/console. Unfortunately >since the getty runs now on /dev/vga the ownership of /dev/console doesn't >get set when logging in. If you use xdm, then GiveConsole and TakeConsole >should set the ownership and permissions correctly. This just *might* be completely un related, but when I (using xdm) login as *me*, and later type 'su' and enter the password, it gives me a root prompt, and promptly locks the keyboard. I can mouse around, cutting and pasting, but I cannot use any keys!!! >David >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 > School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.