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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Console problems with X and PCVT driver Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:42:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4af2mf$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4aceqf$982@news.tamu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed) writes: > I compiled support for the PCVT driver a while back, and the other day I > noticed the following message in the xconsole window: > > Couldn't open console Check the ownership of /dev/console. (I suppose you've got the UCONSOLE option in the kernel; it's in there by default.) SEE ALSO fbtab(5) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)