From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 13:50:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22650 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA22642 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id VAA03798 ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:27:36 +0100 (BST) To: Michael Smith cc: igor@cs.ibank.ru (Igor Vinokurov), robin@is.co.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: /dev/console In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:13:35 +0930." <199604232343.JAA12734@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:27:35 +0100 Message-ID: <3796.830377655@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote in message ID <199604232343.JAA12734@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>: > You're using xinit. Don't. Use xdm like you should be; part of its > startup explicitly facilitates xconsole's operation. You might > also try xterm -C if you're desperate. Sorry? I don't necessarily always want to run X11 on startup. I did for a while, but decided that on my machine (which (back then) barely had enough memory to make X realistic (i.e. 8Mb) it was too much hassle... So xdm isn't always ``the right thing''. The way around this is to use /etc/fbtab (see fbtab (4)). I use: /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console myself. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.