From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 2:16:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFF637B622 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 02:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup415.gent.skynet.be (dialup415.gent.skynet.be [195.238.17.159]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C01C181A9 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 11:16:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:09:11 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <3904b414.7406636@relay.skynet.be> References: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be> <20000421124206.B4854@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000421124206.B4854@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to both for the reply. I only have a few minor questions left. On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:42:06 -0400, Ray Kohler wrote: >> I can only see ttyv0 to ttyv7, apart from the console where I logged in. >> >> So, question: where have the other 8 virtual consoles gone? > >They still exist, but since there are no gettys running on them, you >can't use them. Which terminals get which gettys is controlled in >/etc/ttys. Is 16 a number that is hardcoded into the system? If only 8 vtty's are activated, shouldn't the number 16 be reduced? How much memory do these "16 virtual consoles" take up, anyway? And if 8 vtty's is too much, shouldn't that number be reduced? I assume that getty is only necessary for the physical keyboard, not for external logins. Is that right? >You can always add more, but it's of course not such a >good idea to make more terminals than you have F-keys, cuz then you >can't reach them :) Oh. I had assumed a mechanism as was used on the Atari ST, where you had to press one of the special keys (either shift or control, I forgot) together with the function key. Press shift+F1 and you get F11 (assuming 10 physical keys). These key combinations even had separate keyscancode. -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message