Avoiding Screen Pollution from Kernel Messges D1200345689 Aglenda #Don't you just hate it when kernel messages pollute your display in #the form of those annoying black rectangles overlaid above whatever #you're working on? This is a known bug in rio(1); for further #detail, see Rob Pike's [message | #http://9fans.net/archive/2000/10/203] to this effect. # #To work around this problem, open a new terminal window and do: # #! cat /dev/kprint # #This works because, according to the kprint discussion in cons(3), #"if (the) console is a graphics screen, the data is sent either to #the display or to kprint, but not both." # #Another more permanent solution to the problem is to put # #! cat /dev/kprint >/dev/null >[2=1] # #somewhere in termrc (see cpurc(8)). #