On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:03:44 +0100
Christian Hattemer <chris@heaven.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this probably applies to more than i386, but I thougth I'd mail here first.
> 
> Since 1.6 the first text mode console uses /dev/console by default instead
> of /dev/ttyE0. I can login on the first (console) screen and also on the
> second (ttyE1) screen and start X from there. The first screen still works
> fine. But when xconsole is running and I change back to the first console
> and type a key it does not appear on the screen. Instead it appears in the
> xconsole. There also appears a new login prompt. Also messages about getty
> repeating to fast on /dev/console appear. When closing xconsole everything
> goes back to normal and I can login on the first screen again.

I experienced the same problem. Now I use /dev/ttyE0 as the first console too.
sysinst should probably configure the first console to be /dev/ttyE0 when
wscons is used (i.e, when it also sets wscons=YES in rc.conf).

Regards

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Julio Merino (http://jmmv.dyndns.org/) <jmmv@menta.net>