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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.
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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