From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 00:13:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA21025 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (snitterly.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.221.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA21020 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.219.103]) by snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id JAA06522; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:15:29 GMT Received: by pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za with Microsoft Mail id <01BCB9DB.D5C81FD0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:12:29 +0200 Message-ID: <01BCB9DB.D5C81FD0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> From: "P. van Leeuwen" To: "'Piotr Kielanowski'" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:12:27 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Check your .login or .cshrc or .profile (depending on your shell) to see if you don't run any program that is supposed to be run in a virtual console. e.g. vidkontrol will cause your problem. If you do find something like that, but it inside an if statement : if ($term == cons25) then vidcontrol -m on endif for tcsh. Hope that helps Pierre P. van Leeuwen pvl@nanoteq.com http://www.nanoteq.co.za -----Original Message----- From: Piotr Kielanowski [SMTP:kiel@physics.utexas.edu] Sent: Friday, September 05, 1997 12:30 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hi, Every time I open an xterm window or telnet to my FreeBSD 2.2.2 PC I get the message Must be on a virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for device Otherwise everything seems to works. I was not getting this message with an earlier version. Can you help? Sincerely yours, Piotr Kielanowski