> >    It's not clear to me why you think `-X' does anything useful.  If you
 > >    look in the man page, you'll see that `-x' is the option to run in an
 > >    X window.  (`-X' is for testing purposes only, and does something
 > >    completely different.)
 > > 
 > > Well, doesn't that go against the POLA (Principle Of Least Astonishment)?
 > 
 > requiring any argument whatsoever to invoke 'x mode' is against the
 > Principle of Least Astonishment...
 > 
 > Consider emacs and many X programs: if DISPLAY is set and you give no
 > special options, it uses X.  You need to give a special option to
 > disable X.

Anyway, the '-r' mode which is documented causes with pcvt the same
mmap() error. And by looking at the code, it seems to try to mmap too
much video memory. But I haven't had time to look further.


					Matthieu