From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 14 14:33:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25927 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bdd.net (bdd.net [207.61.119.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25904 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by bdd.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29112; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:32:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Stein To: Michael Robinson cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm won't load In-Reply-To: <199607141958.DAA02769@public.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Michael Robinson wrote: > will start up, and run xclock, but any attempt to load an xterm results in > this error message: > > xterm: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device Check your kernel config. For xterms, you need to have ... options "COMPAT_43" ...in there, as the xterm code still requires it. It's a compatibility with BSD 4.3 tag, and should solve your problem. Let me know if it helped! -- mat. +-Matthew Stein-------------------------------------------- matt@bdd.net-+ | Network Design phone: +1 519 823-8577 | | ButtonDown Digital fax: +1 519 823-9556 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+