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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Problem with xconsole In-Reply-To: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu's message of 27 Sep 92 17:45:44 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Sep27161927@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Sep27.174544.7822@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:19:27 GMT Lines: 12 In article <1992Sep27.174544.7822@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Benjamin A. Tober) writes: I'm using 386BSD with X386 and it works nicely except that xconsole does not function properly. Attempts to write to /dev/console cause keyboard input to be mangled, thus necessitating a reboot. I do have getty disabled on /dev/console and the ownership of /dev/console is correct (i.e.- the same as the invoking user). I'm using xdm and twm. Has anyone seen this phenomenon? Is there a fix? -ben A fix for xconsole will require more kernel support for redirecting console output. The first official 386BSD patch set may support this since it's aimed at enhancing X support. The kernel pathches supplied with XFree86 don't include this. Rich