(Yes, I am following up to messages written last September.  Hey, at
least I read my back list mail before asking the same question!)

tn = Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
st = Scott Telford <st@epcc.ed.ac.uk>

st> I've just upgraded to 1.4.1, I've set wscons=YES in /etc/rc.conf and I'm
st> using the stock /etc/wscons.conf. During boot-up, between the
st> "configuring wscons" message and the "wsdisplay0: adding screen..."
st> messages I get
st> 
st> 	wsconscfg: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Device busy

Exactly the same thing happened to me.

tm> It's nothing serious: rc.wscons tries to create a screen that
tm> has already been initialised by the kernel (see wsdisplay(4),
tm> WSDISPLAY_DEFAULTSCREENS)

Um, that definition is commented out in my kernel config file, which
is based on the GENERIC file.  But if I enabled it, presumably I would
get four screens assigned by the kernel, and four error messages
instead of one from wscons?

tm> You can switch the message off by commenting out the "screen 0..."
tm> line in /etc/wscons.conf.

I have done so.  It occurs to me though, that perhaps that line should
be commented out in the default wscons.conf file.  Well, unless the
kernel didn't assign any screens, but then it would have no console???

(You can no doubt tell that this virtual console stuff is pretty new
to me, though I do like being able to switch between the consoles,
especially when I do something stupid and freeze up my X server! :-) )



So I recently installed 1.4.1 after running with 1.2 for a long time,
and the above covered question #2 of 3 that I was going to ask the
list.  Question #1 concerned the "Old BSD partition ID" warning at
boot time, but by starting to catch up to two years of list mail, I've
found the answer to that one as well -- though I won't be trying to
implement the solution until I have made a full backup of my system,
in case I trash things with fdisk.

My third question concerns the performance of X, which is not as good
as it was under 1.2, but before I ask it, I have to list the exact
differences, test a few things, and make sure the question is not already
answered in old list postings.  I wonder, though, whether wscons is
to blame.

Anyway, you list folks are helpful even when you're not directly
answering my questions!  :-)  Thanks all, and of course thanks to the
folks who made 1.4.1 possible -- it is very nice.


Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
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