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- From: dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com (Dave Waller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: X11R5 on 9000/730 annoyance
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 19:13:16 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard
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- Sender: dave@hpdstma (Dave Waller)
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- References: <1992Dec23.145921.19285@ists.ists.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec23.145921.19285@ists.ists.ca>, anthony@nereid.sal.ists.ca (David M. Anthony) writes:
- |> System: HP9000/730
- |> OS: HP-UX 8.05
- |>
- |> I installed MIT's X11R5 some months ago. Everything went smoothly except
- |> for the contrib code for "xconsole". It compiles fine but does not work
- |> as advertised. When it comes up it responds with a "Couldn't open
- |> console message". The annoyance arises when I try and bring up an X
- |> client that may have to send some output to the console. My X session
- |> hangs and I must <shft><cntrl><break> to get back to the HP screen and
- |> then restart my X server.
-
- I can't help you with whatever the problem is with xconsole, but until you
- have a resolution, a band-aid would be to start up an hpterm or xterm with
- the "-C" option; this will make that terminal window a console window,
- which will recieve anything written to /dev/console.
-
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- Dave Waller
- Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Workstation Systems Division
- Sunnyvale Channel Partner Consulting
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