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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
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:19:27 GMT
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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