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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problem with console
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.141027.12274@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:10:27 GMT
- References: <FCAIC.92Nov19091438@woody.wbst845e.xerox.com>
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 22
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- In article <FCAIC.92Nov19091438@woody.wbst845e.xerox.com> fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com (Frank Caico) writes:
- >
- >I have been trying to figure this out, but havent come up with the answer
- >yet.
- >
- >I am trying to start up a console from inside X windows, but i cannot get
- >it to work. If I start an xconsole, it doesn't actually display console
- >messages and if I start a xterm -C that doesn't work either.
- >
- >I am using the SLS distribution, linux .98pl2 If anyone can help with this
- >I would really appreciate it!
-
- There was a bug in the pty redirection handling with the new tty
- routines in 0.98. It was essentially a '+1' which should have been a
- '-1'. It's fixed in 0.98pl4 and pl5.
-
- Note that the linux kernel messages still won't get printed under X
- unless you use a special program to actually trap them: xterm -C only
- catches user-level output (ie error messages from the X server etc) to
- the console.
-
- Linus
-