From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 9:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CA537BA3B for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA04924 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:42:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ray) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:42:06 -0400 From: Ray Kohler To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? Message-ID: <20000421124206.B4854@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu References: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be>; from bart.lateur@skynet.be on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:54:24PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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