On Fri, 10 May 1996, Brad Salai wrote:

> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Congrats to the people on colour X, works great on my cx (toby card).
> > 
> > Does anyone have a clue how to solve the continous barrage of
> > messages that get spat out at me? 
> > 
> This is how I handle it:
> 
> In an open xterm:
> su to root;
> xconsole &;
> exit
> 
> 
> This creates an xterm that receives all those messages. I usually 
> iconify it and never look at it again. There should be a way to do this 
> in .fvwmrc or whatever you are using, but I haven't been able to figure 
> that out, but then again, I can't get xdm to work either but that's me..

Yep.  Or, if you run xdm, you can start up the xconsole in your 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup file to start it on every X session.  That 
way, you don't have to worry about remembering (or hard-coding) the 
password to root.