On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:48:49PM -0500, Anne Bennett wrote:
> 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
It defaults to 1 then (AFAIK).

> 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?
Exactly.

> 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???
That has been done for NetBSD-current and will probably go into the
next release of NetBSD. (I think as a result of this (or a similar)
discussion someone has sent in a problem-report.)
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