Re: X display damaged after ifconfig

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:06:28PM +0200, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> Argl.
> 
> What's wrong with "ifconfig le0 inet6 fec0::260:30ff:fe00:293"?
> I always get "ifconfig: SIOCDIFADDR: Address family not supported
> by protocol family" but a later "ifconfig le0" shows that the
> interface is has the correct IPv6 address. (I'll look at tech-net
> tomorrow (which I am not subscribed to) to see if this has already
> been discussed there...)
> 
> But what is even worse: After the "ifconfig le0 inet6..."
> call, the first 8 rows of my X display are trashed. This
> is on a 1.4X system.

you dont run xconsole. Some kernel output is written in text mode to the
frame buffer, without switching modes.

you should run xconsole  to avoid this.
        -is