xcons murders the X server

[Perry Hutchison]

In article <4327 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

> This is with Ultrix 3.1, UWS 2.1, X11R3, on a VAXstation II/GPX; the display
> is a vr290.

<description of nasty xcons/Xserver bug>

> Removing the xcons line from /etc/ttys eliminates the problem

> But that's no solution.  It won't do to have random warnings scribbled
> all over the console's screen

Try a Sun.    :-)  :-)  :-)

Seriously, is it possible to assign the console function to a VT-100 attached
to a serial port so as to get the system messages off the vr290?