Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:31:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? Message-ID: <20000421173129.K42478@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be> References: <3900781c.31856@relay.skynet.be>
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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> I think that's sc0, but we know what you mean... > 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 should be present, but have no getty running on them. You'll need to enable them in /etc/ttys. You may also need to MAKEDEV them -- use 'MAKEDEV vty16' to make 16 of them. I'm not sure how you access the ones beyond the 12th though with a keyboard which only has functions keys up to F12. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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