From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 16:12:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D46915146 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10hiAT-000A0M-0B; Wed, 12 May 1999 23:12:01 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA00427; Thu, 13 May 1999 00:11:29 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id AAA02689; Thu, 13 May 1999 00:11:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:11:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Doug White Cc: Kiril Mitev , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling xconsole Message-ID: <19990513001101.C258@marder-1> References: <199905121112.MAA25293@idea.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:10:20PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:10:20PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > can someone let me know/point me to the docs > > wrt how to get xconsole to grab the "the" console > > instead of explaining that it couln't open console? > > > > i have UCONSOLE in the kernel, if it makes any difference > > I've noticed that xconsole gets unhappy sometimes. What's the permissions > on /dev/console? > You also need to uncomment (or add) the following line to /etc/fbtab: /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message