Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:42:06 -0400 From: Ray Kohler <ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? Message-ID: <20000421124206.B4854@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be>; from bart.lateur@skynet.be on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:54:24PM %2B0000 References: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be>
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:54:24PM +0000, Bart Lateur wrote: > This may seem like a silly question, but I've been wondering about this > for quite some time. > > When the kernel boots, when it gets to sd0, it says: > > sd0 on isa > sd0: vaga color <16 virtual consoles, flags = 0x0> > > > But after the booting is finished, only Alt-F1 to Alt-F8 > work. And when I do > > ps -waux | grep tty > > 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. 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 :) -- Ray Kohler <rjk191@psu.edu> FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve When the government bureau's remedies don't match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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