freebsd stable - Aug 2004 - console grabbing in X

Hi,

I'm not sure what this option allows:

# Allow ordinary users to take the console - this is useful for X.
options         UCONSOLE

I have this configured in my kernel config, but I still can't run xconsole
as a non-root user (program launches with "Couldn't open console"
error).
Am I misunderstanding something?

thanks,
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:42:42 +1000, Joel Hatton wrote:
>>
> I'm not sure what this option allows:
>
> # Allow ordinary users to take the console - this is useful for X.
> options         UCONSOLE
>
> I have this configured in my kernel config, but I still can't run
xconsole
> as a non-root user (program launches with "Couldn't open
console" error).
> Am I misunderstanding something?
>>
Wild guess: you need to chown/reprotect /dev/console.

Do "man fbtab" for more information.

Dan Strick