On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:40:15AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> 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).

NO ! This will break if you use serial console; this is why is was changed
from /dev/ttyE0 to /dev/console.

xconsole shouldn't cause this behavior.  There is a bug somewhere, which needs
to be fixed.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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