diff --git a/console-tools/deallocvt.c b/console-tools/deallocvt.c
index 4600c0d..ebdce7b 100644
--- a/console-tools/deallocvt.c
+++ b/console-tools/deallocvt.c
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@
 		for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 			num = atoi(argv[i]);
 			if (num == 0)
-				errorMsg("0: illegal VT number\n");
+				error_msg("0: illegal VT number\n");
 			else if (num == 1)
-				errorMsg("VT 1 cannot be deallocated\n");
+				error_msg("VT 1 cannot be deallocated\n");
 			else if (ioctl(fd, VT_DISALLOCATE, num)) {
 				perror("VT_DISALLOCATE");
-				fatalError("could not deallocate console %d\n", num);
+				error_msg_and_die("could not deallocate console %d\n", num);
 			}
 		}
 printf("erik: C\n");
diff --git a/console-tools/dumpkmap.c b/console-tools/dumpkmap.c
index 77689fc..3ff5ef6 100644
--- a/console-tools/dumpkmap.c
+++ b/console-tools/dumpkmap.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 	fd = open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		errorMsg("Error opening /dev/tty0: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		error_msg("Error opening /dev/tty0: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 				ke.kb_table = i;
 				if (ioctl(fd, KDGKBENT, &ke) < 0) {
 				
-					errorMsg("ioctl returned: %s, %s, %s, %xqq\n",strerror(errno),(char *)&ke.kb_index,(char *)&ke.kb_table,(int)&ke.kb_value);
+					error_msg("ioctl returned: %s, %s, %s, %xqq\n",strerror(errno),(char *)&ke.kb_index,(char *)&ke.kb_table,(int)&ke.kb_value);
 					}
 				else {
 					write(1,(void*)&ke.kb_value,2);	
diff --git a/console-tools/loadacm.c b/console-tools/loadacm.c
index 1562108..a696640 100644
--- a/console-tools/loadacm.c
+++ b/console-tools/loadacm.c
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
 
 	fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		errorMsg("Error opening /dev/tty1: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		error_msg("Error opening /dev/tty1: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
 	if (screen_map_load(fd, stdin)) {
-		errorMsg("Error loading acm: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		error_msg("Error loading acm: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 		if (parse_failed) {
 			if (-1 == fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET)) {
 				if (errno == ESPIPE)
-					errorMsg("16bit screen-map MUST be a regular file.\n"),
+					error_msg("16bit screen-map MUST be a regular file.\n"),
 						exit(1);
 				else
 					perror("fseek failed reading binary 16bit screen-map"),
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 				perror("Cannot read [new] map from file"), exit(1);
 #if 0
 			else
-				errorMsg("Input screen-map is binary.\n");
+				error_msg("Input screen-map is binary.\n");
 #endif
 		}
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 	/* rewind... */
 	if (-1 == fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET)) {
 		if (errno == ESPIPE)
-			errorMsg("Assuming 8bit screen-map - MUST be a regular file.\n"),
+			error_msg("Assuming 8bit screen-map - MUST be a regular file.\n"),
 				exit(1);
 		else
 			perror("fseek failed assuming 8bit screen-map"), exit(1);
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 			if (-1 == fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET)) {
 				if (errno == ESPIPE)
 					/* should not - it succedeed above */
-					errorMsg("fseek() returned ESPIPE !\n"),
+					error_msg("fseek() returned ESPIPE !\n"),
 						exit(1);
 				else
 					perror("fseek for binary 8bit screen-map"), exit(1);
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 				perror("Cannot read [old] map from file"), exit(1);
 #if 0
 			else
-				errorMsg("Input screen-map is binary.\n");
+				error_msg("Input screen-map is binary.\n");
 #endif
 		}
 
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 		else
 			return 0;
 	}
-	errorMsg("Error parsing symbolic map\n");
+	error_msg("Error parsing symbolic map\n");
 	return(1);
 }
 
diff --git a/console-tools/loadfont.c b/console-tools/loadfont.c
index f69f52f..13a196f 100644
--- a/console-tools/loadfont.c
+++ b/console-tools/loadfont.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 	fd = open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR);
 	if (fd < 0)
-		fatalPerror("Error opening /dev/tty0");
+		perror_msg_and_die("Error opening /dev/tty0");
 	loadnewfont(fd);
 
 	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
 
 	if (unit < 1 || unit > 32)
-		fatalError("Bad character size %d\n", unit);
+		error_msg_and_die("Bad character size %d\n", unit);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < fontsize; i++)
 		memcpy(buf + (32 * i), inbuf + (unit * i), unit);
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@
 
 		if (ioctl(fd, PIO_FONTX, &cfd) == 0)
 			return;				/* success */
-		perrorMsg("PIO_FONTX ioctl error (trying PIO_FONT)");
+		perror_msg("PIO_FONTX ioctl error (trying PIO_FONT)");
 	}
 #endif
 	if (ioctl(fd, PIO_FONT, buf))
-		fatalPerror("PIO_FONT ioctl error");
+		perror_msg_and_die("PIO_FONT ioctl error");
 }
 
 static void
@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@
 	if (ioctl(fd, PIO_UNIMAPCLR, &advice)) {
 #ifdef ENOIOCTLCMD
 		if (errno == ENOIOCTLCMD) {
-			errorMsg("It seems this kernel is older than 1.1.92\n");
-			fatalError("No Unicode mapping table loaded.\n");
+			error_msg("It seems this kernel is older than 1.1.92\n");
+			error_msg_and_die("No Unicode mapping table loaded.\n");
 		} else
 #endif
-			fatalPerror("PIO_UNIMAPCLR");
+			perror_msg_and_die("PIO_UNIMAPCLR");
 	}
 	ud.entry_ct = ct;
 	ud.entries = up;
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 			/* change advice parameters */
 		}
 #endif
-		fatalPerror("PIO_UNIMAP");
+		perror_msg_and_die("PIO_UNIMAP");
 	}
 }
 
@@ -150,13 +150,13 @@
 	 */
 	inputlth = fread(inbuf, 1, sizeof(inbuf), stdin);
 	if (ferror(stdin))
-		fatalPerror("Error reading input font");
+		perror_msg_and_die("Error reading input font");
 	/* use malloc/realloc in case of giant files;
 	   maybe these do not occur: 16kB for the font,
 	   and 16kB for the map leaves 32 unicode values
 	   for each font position */
 	if (!feof(stdin))
-		fatalPerror("Font too large");
+		perror_msg_and_die("Font too large");
 
 	/* test for psf first */
 	{
@@ -174,11 +174,11 @@
 			goto no_psf;
 
 		if (psfhdr.mode > PSF_MAXMODE)
-			fatalError("Unsupported psf file mode\n");
+			error_msg_and_die("Unsupported psf file mode\n");
 		fontsize = ((psfhdr.mode & PSF_MODE512) ? 512 : 256);
 #if !defined( PIO_FONTX ) || defined( __sparc__ )
 		if (fontsize != 256)
-			fatalError("Only fontsize 256 supported\n");
+			error_msg_and_die("Only fontsize 256 supported\n");
 #endif
 		hastable = (psfhdr.mode & PSF_MODEHASTAB);
 		unit = psfhdr.charsize;
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
 
 		head = head0 + fontsize * unit;
 		if (head > inputlth || (!hastable && head != inputlth))
-			fatalError("Input file: bad length\n");
+			error_msg_and_die("Input file: bad length\n");
 		do_loadfont(fd, inbuf + head0, unit, fontsize);
 		if (hastable)
 			do_loadtable(fd, inbuf + head, inputlth - head, fontsize);
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 	} else {
 		/* bare font */
 		if (inputlth & 0377)
-			fatalError("Bad input file size\n");
+			error_msg_and_die("Bad input file size\n");
 		offset = 0;
 		unit = inputlth / 256;
 	}
diff --git a/console-tools/loadkmap.c b/console-tools/loadkmap.c
index 7dfa670..fc24398 100644
--- a/console-tools/loadkmap.c
+++ b/console-tools/loadkmap.c
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@
 
 	fd = open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR);
 	if (fd < 0)
-		fatalPerror("Error opening /dev/tty0");
+		perror_msg_and_die("Error opening /dev/tty0");
 
 	read(0, buff, 7);
 	if (0 != strncmp(buff, BINARY_KEYMAP_MAGIC, 7))
-		fatalError("This is not a valid binary keymap.\n");
+		error_msg_and_die("This is not a valid binary keymap.\n");
 
 	if (MAX_NR_KEYMAPS != read(0, flags, MAX_NR_KEYMAPS))
-		fatalPerror("Error reading keymap flags");
+		perror_msg_and_die("Error reading keymap flags");
 
 	ibuff = (u_short *) xmalloc(ibuffsz);
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 			pos = 0;
 			while (pos < ibuffsz) {
 				if ((readsz = read(0, (char *) ibuff + pos, ibuffsz - pos)) < 0)
-					fatalPerror("Error reading keymap");
+					perror_msg_and_die("Error reading keymap");
 				pos += readsz;
 			}
 			for (j = 0; j < NR_KEYS; j++) {
diff --git a/console-tools/setkeycodes.c b/console-tools/setkeycodes.c
index 6a31e04..7db398d 100644
--- a/console-tools/setkeycodes.c
+++ b/console-tools/setkeycodes.c
@@ -52,18 +52,18 @@
 	a.keycode = atoi(argv[2]);
 	a.scancode = sc = strtol(argv[1], &ep, 16);
 	if (*ep) {
-      fatalError("error reading SCANCODE: '%s'\n", argv[1]);
+      error_msg_and_die("error reading SCANCODE: '%s'\n", argv[1]);
 	}
 	if (a.scancode > 127) {
 	    a.scancode -= 0xe000;
 	    a.scancode += 128;
 	}
 	if (a.scancode > 255 || a.keycode > 127) {
-      fatalError("SCANCODE or KEYCODE outside bounds\n");
+      error_msg_and_die("SCANCODE or KEYCODE outside bounds\n");
 	}
 	if (ioctl(fd,KDSETKEYCODE,&a)) {
 	    perror("KDSETKEYCODE");
-		fatalError("failed to set SCANCODE %x to KEYCODE %d\n", sc, a.keycode);
+		error_msg_and_die("failed to set SCANCODE %x to KEYCODE %d\n", sc, a.keycode);
 	}
 	argc -= 2;
 	argv += 2;