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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD]: no job control Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:35:42 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2e8uau$1vd@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <2e7kpm$45e@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <2e8e2u$4rd1@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com In article <2e8e2u$4rd1@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, EPIC <epic@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >In article <2e7kpm$45e@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: > >> Pretty much the first thing I did when I installed NetBSD 0.9 >> two nights ago was to mknod vga c 12 0, and change /etc/ttys >> so that the second and third line (turn off console, turn >> on vga) were the ones being used for the console. > >Dito > >[DELETED] >> Warning, no access to tty (inappropriate ioctl for device) >> Thus no job control > >I've started getting this message about 2-3 weeks ago, never caused >any problem since I would just logout and log back in. I've never >gotten this message under Xfree. I assume the problem is with the vga >driver or the way its been setup? I've been running into the same problem, so has another friend of mine. I believe I also saw it back before I switched from /dev/console to /dev/vga, although I cannot be sure. It hasn't annoyed me enough to track it down yet, tho :-) --Ken H.