Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 23:46:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11/xconsole not showing any output Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605292332580.2334@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20160529231022.7c642855.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605292200250.2334@localhost> <20160529221802.6496c217.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605292224300.2334@localhost> <20160529231022.7c642855.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 29 May 2016, the wise Polytropon wrote: >> The permissions of /dev/console look ok: >> crw------- 1 marco wheel 0x9 May 29 21:24 /dev/console > > This also looks like xdm configuration is not the problem here. Do you > get any error message when manually starting xconsole from a terminal? When running plain xconsole without options I get: Couldn't open console. But starting xconsole with "xconsole -file /dev/console" shows no errors, except that it doesn't display anything. Testing it with something like "echo test > /dev/console" results in xconsole staying blank, but switching to ctrl+alt+f1 shows that the output went to console/ttyv0 just fine. So I think xconsole doesn't point to /dev/console (ttyv0) but to ttyv8 (where X is) for some reason. -- QOTD: "It seems to me that your antenna doesn't bring in too many stations anymore."
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