[comp.sys.hp] Can't get Terminal to be accessed properly by Xwindows/TeamWork

thollowe@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tom Hollowell) (05/29/91)

I have recently run across some problems using  X-Windows and a CASE tool
called TeamWork on an HP9000/300.  We have a 19" graphics terminal
hooked up as the console, it is a 98786A, and everytime I attempt
to start the tool, I get an error in the following form:

   hpterm: display "tseg:0.0" is not authorized to take cpontrol of
            /dev/console.

The tseg is the name of the system , it is currently the only system on a 
small LAN.  As of right now, the LAN is not functional.  Could
this dead LAN be a problem also?

Is there a specific termcap entry needed by Windows to make this screen 
recognizable, and if so, what is it, could someone send it to me?
If it something else, does anybody have a clue?  

Any possibilities will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks for any help you may have.

Thomas Hollowell
-- 
"My uniform is leather, and my power is my age.
I'm getting it together to break out of this cage"
                  "Flaming Youth", KISS
Tom Hollowell Ohio University, Athens  

robs@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Rob Slotemaker CRC) (05/29/91)

Most times this error message is given, the file /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles doesn't
exist or doesn't contain proper information. It should contain the a line with
a '*' character. Please check it and try to start the program again. Note that
the permission of the file must be 444 (read-only) and that owner and group
are bin/bin.

Although you wrote that the LAN isn't used now, be sure the LAN cable is
terminated properly.


Good luck and best regards,

Rob Slotemaker, Dutch CRC