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- From: beyer@utrtsc.dec.com (Peter Beyer)
- Subject: Re: Cannot open Console on DecStation 5000/200
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.080159.9932@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec10.205008.26046@ee.gatech.edu> <1992Dec11.093507.61938@cc.usu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:59:09 GMT
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- >In article <1992Dec10.205008.26046@ee.gatech.edu>, dao@blackbird.uucp (Dozier DaO) writes:
- >>
- >> We have three DecStation 5000/200 in our group and all of them have a
- >> common problem:
- >>
- >> We cannot open a console window in any of the window managers that we
- >> are using (tvtwm, twm, x, olwm, olvwm) and whenever some error message
- >> is sent to the console, it is simply dumped onto the bitplanes.
- >
-
- To enable a console window one needs to have pseudo-device xcons configured
- in the systems configuration file.
-
-
- Peter Beyer
- Windows, Graphics & Multimedia
- Digital Equipment b.v.
- beyer@utrtsc.enet.dec.com
- beyer@athena.uto.dec.com
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