Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:01:05 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: wOOwOO <woowoo@mark.petra.ac.id> Cc: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding ttyv? devices. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960919105736.392A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960919141525.1852A-100000@mark.petra.ac.id>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, wOOwOO wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I've been searching/reading archives/FAQ's and as far as I can tell > > > MAXCONS is 12 by default (LINT), So to add ttyv[4-11] should be: > > > % ./MAKEDEV ttyv4 > > > It returns: > > > ttyv4 - no such device name > > > > > > and add em to /etc/ttys > > > > > > What am I missing here. > > I guess you can't be blamed, because this is really confusing. > > You should do ./MAKEDEV vty4 > > > > Look in MAKEDEV for such things... > > yeah .. the devices were succesfully created, but how to make its active > (pressing alt-f5, alt-f6, etc.) ? > > I tried to add in /etc/ttys > > But got error from kernel ... ttyv? not configured ... It works for me... You can check for how many consoles your kernel is configuring by simple doing: dmesg | grep console I suspect it isn't configured correctly. I'm currently on a machine with options "MAXCONS=8" in its config file, and adding the devices to /dev and /etc/ttys, and then "kill -1 1" (no reboot even...) gave me additional consoles. I might be mising something too though... :-) > > thanks for your help :) > > Agustinus > Nadav
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