Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 12:05:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Piotr Kielanowski <kiel@physics.utexas.edu> To: "P. van Leeuwen" <pvl@nanoteq.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905120439.214D-100000@julka.fis.cinvestav.mx> In-Reply-To: <01BCB9DB.D5C81FD0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>
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Hi, Thank you very much. vidcontrol was the problem Sincerely yours, Piotr Kielanowski On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, P. van Leeuwen wrote: > 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 > > > >
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