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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: vitual terminals on console?
Message-ID: <1993Mar29.072922.25619@gmd.de>
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References: <733149450snz@feline.demon.co.uk> <1p2aug$mr4@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 07:29:22 GMT
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In article <1p2aug$mr4@wzv.win.tue.nl>, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
|> steve@feline.demon.co.uk (Steve Owen) writes:
|>
|> >I heard a rumour that 386bsd was able to have virtual screens
|> >on the console. That is to say the user at the console
|> >hits ,say, alt-f1 and then gets another login (getty). Is this available?
|>
|>
|> >Steve Owen
|> This package is called sos-syscons and is available from agate.berkeley.edu
|> in /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/from-ref/sos-syscons (or at
|> least the real pathname resemble this ;-)). It replaces the stock
|> pccons driver. You can also wait a bit untill the new codrv driver from
|> Hloger Veit comes out. It's being beta tested right now, and as far
|> as I know it makes a good chance to become the new standard console
|> driver. (anyone: correct me if I am wrong.)
For the fairness of the competition :-) : All three alternative
console drivers (codrv-0.1.2-ALPHA, syscons, pcvt) have some kind of
virtual consoles in it. They have different additional goodies, so it is
up to you to decide which one is the best for you (I wouldn't reagard this
decision as easy):
codrv: XFree86, remappable keyboard
pcvt: vt100 emulator, remappable keyboard (subset of codrv)
syscons: SYSV ioctl subset
Holger
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