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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console problems with X and PCVT driver
Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:42:55 GMT
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mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed) writes:
> I compiled support for the PCVT driver a while back, and the other day I
> noticed the following message in the xconsole window:
> 
> Couldn't open console

Check the ownership of /dev/console.  (I suppose you've got the
UCONSOLE option in the kernel; it's in there by default.)

SEE ALSO

  fbtab(5)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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