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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: "vga" in /etc/ttys
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:12:34 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199601160410.VAA25206@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Jan 15, 96 09:10:30 pm
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As Don Yuniskis wrote:

>     Is "vga" still a viable option for "console" in /etc/ttys?
> Or has it been deprecated in favor of "just another ttyv*"?

MAKEDEV says:

         ln -fs ttyv0 vga        # XXX X still needs this pccons relic

Well, i'm not even sure if it's still required, i would have to look
up the X server sources again.  You won't gain much from using it in
/etc/ttys, apparently.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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