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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:07:50 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        ambrisko@tcs.com
Subject:   Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem
Message-ID:  <199603120407.PAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> 	- Run getty on /dev/console and not on /dev/ttyv0, so I get a console
>> 	  getty no matter which way I boot.

>Hmm, there was a saying the running getty on /dev/console used to be
>totally broken.  Bruce?  Ever tried it lately?

Not lately.  I use syscons, which still has the hack of using a special
minor device for the console so that /dev/console is a little different
from /dev/vt0.  I think there is nothing special for pcvt, so /dev/vt0
is the console.

Bruce



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