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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
> 
> 
> 
>