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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!cosy.sbg.ac.at!peter From: peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller) Subject: console-troubles Message-ID: <C4E5so.JvC@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: kuh Reply-To: peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <9308014.28075@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:41:11 GMT Lines: 21 Hi folks! I just was wondering about getting the following statement. Couldn't open console. It appears if I start X and try to open an xconsole (not being root!) Has anyone a clue to this ? (The settings of /dev/console are crw-rw-rw console) crw-rw-rw vga Anyway, doesn't X use vga instead of console ? - Peter --- /--------------------------------------------------------\ | Peter Burgstaller| Student of Computerscience | | (peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at)| in Salzburg, Austria (Europe) | | "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" (Douglas Adams) | \--------------------------------------------------------/