On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Lord Isildur wrote:

> give this command:
> 
> mknod /dev/console c 0 0
> mknod should be in /etc, but i cant guarantee you'll find it anywhere
> specific.. if you have a MAKEDEV script in your /dev directory, then you
> could just do a cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV console , as well. 
> 
> happy  hacking,
> isildur
> 
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Blaise St-Laurent wrote:
> 
> > So i was told a while back that the easiest way to stop the pmax from
> > spewing out debug info to the screen (thereby corrupting my X session) was
> > to create /dev/console.. which is something i'm not entirely sure of how
> > to do in NetBSD.. What are the major minor codes, and what permissions are
> > required for this to work? 
> > 
> > Thanks a bunch...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



Actually you may want to run xconsole to capture the console
messages. Messages sent to console are what messes up the X screen...

Peter Wallace