Re: Getty login for console is displayed inside xconsole in xdm (NetBSD/i386 7.0_RC1 drmkms)

[Adrian Christiansen <adrian.christiansen%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi Eric!

Aha, this is great news! I did as you said and enabled the ttyE0 in
/etc/ttys, I didn't disable console in /etc/ttys since I still want
the messages to show up on ttyE0. This made me able to use ttyE0, and
login. As you pointed out already I do actually need to set console to
off in /etc/ttys to stop getty opening a login: promt in xconsole.
However this makes the messages only show up in xconsole, not on
ttyE0, this is not the behaviour I want, constty didn't work either.

I guess I'm a bit confused about all of this. But I still would like
the messages sent to /dev/console to show up on ttyE0. Not just in the
xconsole. Is there a way to do this?


Cheers!,
Adrian.

2015-06-26 23:28 GMT+02:00 Eric Schnoebelen <eric%cirr.com@localhost>:
> Adrian Christiansen writes:
> - This makes me wonder if it is an issue with drmkms at all. So I'm
> - thinking more that this is an issue with xdm or xconsole being setup
> - wrong?, haven't changed any settings since installing.
>
> xconsole(1) is functioning as designed.  It acquires the console
> messages by telling the kernel that the pty it has opened is the
> console.
>
> Thus, getting attempts to run on it.
>
> If you wish to have xconsole(1) capture the console messages,
> but have getting running on the F1 tty, edit /etc/ttys to
> disable the gettign running on console, and enable the one on
> ttyE0.
>
> Or you could use the terminals enabled on E1-E3 by default.
>
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