Re: Cannot open Console on DecStation 5000/200

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From: Peter Beyer
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:59

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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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Subject: Re: Cannot open Console on DecStation 5000/200
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