From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 10:24:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA07771 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 10:24:03 -0700 Received: from pcca71.gallaudet.edu (root@pcca71.gallaudet.edu [134.231.56.107]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA07760 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 10:23:59 -0700 Received: (from jon@localhost) by pcca71.gallaudet.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06574 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 13:26:21 GMT Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 13:26:21 GMT From: Basket Case Message-Id: <199510211326.NAA06574@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCVT Console problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've recently setup a PCVT console and recompiled the kernel. Everything did not work great (e.g. typing man ls would just print everything on one line) until i typed setenv TERM vt220. (Any solutions to this, other than putting a line in .cshrc?) The problem I have is that vidcontrol wont run. When I type vidcontrol, it says Must be on virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for device What is this error? I'm doing everything from the console (currenly on v1) and can't find any solutions to this problem. My ttys file has the following: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pcvt50 on secure same for ttyv1 & ttyv2. What am i doing wrong here? Jon