From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 03:00:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA01629 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 03:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA01596 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 03:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA25229; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:01:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id MAA14510; Wed, 21 May 1997 12:01:50 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199705211001.MAA14510@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Virtual consoles? In-Reply-To: from "lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk" at "May 21, 97 10:00:38 am" To: lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:01:49 +0200 (MEST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi there, > > Is it possible to have more than three virtual consoles (ttyv0 > etc.)? You can only switch to F2 and F3, and then F4 is the X > server - how can I use the rest of the function keys? add lines to /etc/ttys like: # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure cd /dev ./MAKEDEV vty8 kill -HUP 1 restart the X server > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de