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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.fc.net!obiwan!wayne From: wayne@obiwan.uucp (Wayne Willcox) Subject: Re: X windows : ioctl problems with xterm Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX Message-ID: <Dn78HF.6Bs@obiwan.uucp> References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> <31177C54.2E@ordab.com> <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com> <slrn4hs701.66.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:44:03 GMT Lines: 28 In article <slrn4hs701.66.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt>, Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> wrote: >In article <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com>, Craig Shaver wrote: > >Snip (parts deleted) >> > login: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device >I got that error if the following is not in the config file for the >kernel >options "COMPAT_43" >It's mentioned nowhere in the docs. > >-Feisal >-- >Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 >Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies. > > if you don't enable options "COMPAT_43", the dialup getty will also choke you will beable to use cu to dial out but when you try and dialin it will look like you have a baud rate mismatch. so the morale is don't be me and comment it out and then wonder why getty is broke. -- Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ... Wayne Willcox I will not eat green eggs and ham wayne@obiwan.pmr.com I will not eat them Sam I Am!! wayne@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%wayne@uunet.uu.net)