From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 13:35:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA29621 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:35:34 -0700 Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29614 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:35:28 -0700 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA11798; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:27:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:27:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Don's FList drop" To: bmk@dtr.com cc: freyes@i-2000.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why only 3 virtual screens? In-Reply-To: <199508251612.JAA09986@everest> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Aug 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > > Is there a reason why Freebsd only has 3 virtual screens > > (Alt-F1 to Alt-F3)? Do I need to recompile (uh no please I just > > got FreeBsd it is too son to start fiddling around with this) the > > kernel or there is a configuration file for this? > > The generic kernel has support for 4 virtual consoles, but getty is only > enabled on three to allow X to use the fourth. > > You can edit /etc/ttys and run 'kill -HUP 1' to enable the getty on the > fourth. If you need more, you will need to recompile (just) the kernel. > Kernel recompilation is fairly trivial - I believe that it's covered in > the FAQ. Uh, don't think so. You'll need to _make the devices_, but I don't recall recompliling the kernel to get my 10 devices. (And I can't find any entry there about it) I am pretty sure all you need to do is: su root go to /dev ./MAKEDEV vty# where # is 4 through 11 and then alter ttys to getty the other ones. at least, I think that's all I ended up doing....