From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 7:24:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4974A14E76 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from korvus@tasam.com) Received: from localhost (korvus@localhost) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA22510; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:24:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Korvus [PINE]" To: Val Kilmer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual consoles (ttyv) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edit /etc/ttys to include lines for the new terminals (you can go 0-9 (F1-F10) I believe) -- just duplicate the existing ones with different names, then go into /dev and run mknod for the new terminals. The format is: mknod ttyv[x] c 12 [x] so to make /dev/ttyv4, type: mknod ttyv4 c 12 4 After you do this, reboot (there may be a better way -- someone educate me if there is) and when your system comes up the new terminals should be usable. - Jeff Poole On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Val Kilmer wrote: > How does one setup more than the standard 4 virtual consoles? I've heard > some sketchy info about an option in the kernel config, but could find > nothing in LINT. Any ideas? > > Running: FreeBSD3.2-Release > > Thanks in advance, > > Cory. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message