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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X -- No console
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:22:31 GMT
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gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) writes:

> You must be the owner of the console (/dev/console).  Since you've
> logged in to /dev/ttyv0, or whatever, login won't have fixed this.

It *could* have fixed this, however.  RTFM fbtab(5).

-- 
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. ;-)