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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: xterm broken on 2.1.5-RELEASE / XFree86 3.1.2S
To: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:15:44 +0000 ()
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> 
> I just upgraded my 2.0.5 system to 2.1.5.  Everything works
> wonderfully except for xterm which gives me a
> 
> Error 23, errno 25.  Inappropriate ioctl for device.

Wild guess.  Have you re-compiled a kernel without the "COMPAT43" option?