> 
> >re: "Couldn't open console" from xconsole:
> >
> >is /dev/console owned by you?
> 
> A cheap and effective fix to this problem is to modify xconsole to look at
> /dev/vga as opposed to /dev/console.
> 
> --Ken
> 
It is cheap and effective, as long as you run pccons, and none of
the different console drivers that allow you to start X from
another device than /dev/vga alias /dev/ttyv0. Also you might consider
recompiling xterm because of the '-C' option, and cmdtool/shelltool
(if you like OpenWindows), and probably quite a few other 
user programs that would like to write to the console.

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