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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86, no console for non-root user Message-ID: <1992Sep23.132041.11924@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <19ks69INNd2l@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Sep22.043733.22702@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 13:20:41 GMT Lines: 30 In article <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes: >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!!! I haven't seen this problem. I'd guess that something is opening /dev/console. Have you changed the "console" line in /etc/ttys to "vga"? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------