On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:58:18AM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > Hi! > > Is there anything special that one has to do to get xconsole working > with devfs? I have the newest devfsd from unstable, but xconsole just > doesn't seem to want to start. I have it starting in my Xsession file > (/etc/X11/Xsession) and have put it in xinitrc for good measure. no > dice. > Is there any sawfish/gnome incompatibility?! Is it really devfs?! Have I > just not read the write documentation?! > > I'm running unstable with kernel 2.4.8 and devfsd_1.3.18-1_i386.deb > > Any tips?
I have no idea if there is an issue with devfs, but are you sure xconsole is trying to read from the correct device? By default, I think it tries to read /dev/console, but it should use /dev/xconsole (which is a FIFO). "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole" You need to have permission to read /dev/xconsole as well ("adduser <you> adm"). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>