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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nac.no!news.eunet.no!nuug!dkuug!dde!kim From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen) Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console? Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 00:04:46 GMT Message-ID: <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk> References: <CK9BDx.4nB@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> Lines: 22 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> cline+@CS.CMU.EDU (Kenneth Cline) writes: >>Syscons gives you the ability to switch between different >>sessions on your console. Another advantage over pccons >>is that it works with X11 (I couldn't get pccons to work >>properly with XFree86 (2.0) and FreeBSD (1.0 release), so >>I gave up). >Yeah, well pccons should be fixed so it can work with XFree86. Funny. I have no problems using XFree86 on NetBSD-current with either pcvt/syscons or pccons. A bug in FreeBSD ? regards kim -- -- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark. E-mail: kim@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcsun!dkuug!dde!kim