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From: fchang@macro.stanford.edu (Mystical White Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: X Console and ttyv0
Date: 26 Oct 1995 10:00:26 -0700
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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Message-ID: <46oera$164p@macro.stanford.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: macro.stanford.edu

Hi,

	I was wondering if someone could shed some light on
why I cannot use xconsole -file /dev/ttyv0 to monitor the
outputs to ttyv0 in XF311 (FVWM or TWM)?  I am using FreeBSD v2.0.5.
Why isn't /dev/console mapped to one of the login ports (ttyv?) ?

	Thanks!

Fang