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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X Console and ttyv0 Date: 29 Oct 1995 17:25:59 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4709un$ll@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46oera$164p@macro.stanford.edu> <DH4nI3.3LH@theatre.pandora.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote: >>Why isn't /dev/console mapped to one of the login ports (ttyv?) ? > >Could you please explain what's your problem? > >I don't see any need for what you ask because when I run >xconsole without or with parameters, it simply does what >it should: His problem is a simple pilot error: /dev/console is the master device, and it's normally redirected to /dev/ttyv0 (which is an entirely different device, and must not even exist on some systems) while running a graphics console in text mode, or to /dev/ttyd0 if the system is running a serial console, or to xconsole as soon as it is grabbing the console device via an ioctl command. No parameters are needed to xconsole. It knows best itself what device to operate on. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)