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From: "Francis little" <oggy@hayesbrook.kent.sch.uk>
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Subject: Re: 5.2 Release and Syscons on U60
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thanks a lot, un commenting ttyv0 - 8 in etc/ttys solved it. I now have
a nice console with sysinstall in colour!

oggy

>>> Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> 1/15/2004 14:32:12 >>>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:23:52PM +0000, Francis little wrote:
> Hello, I've installed 5.2 release on my Ultra 60 with a Creator 3d
card
> and have added:
> 
> device          sc
> device          creator
> device          splash
> options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
> 
> to my kernel. when re-compile it and re-boot the machine all the
normal
> kernel messages fly past including:
> 
> creator0: <Creator3d> on nexus0
> sc0: Unknown <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
> 
> but I never get the login prompt on the machine and thus no console!
> although I can still login over SSH.
> 
> Any Ideas???
> 

Adding devices uart and puc, removing devices sab and zs might help.
Also make sure you have ttyvX (X = 0 - 8) in /etc/ttys.