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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!kaleb From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb Keithley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] virtual consoles in FreeBSD? Date: 20 Dec 93 23:34:07 GMT Organization: X Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <kaleb.756430447@kanga.x.org> References: <CI4tyu.6Kp@oea.hobby.nl> <2f551n$se@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kanga.x.org nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >Of course. They are activated by using a console driver that uses them. >Syscons is the one that is supplied by default in FreeBSD, so check out >the SYSCONS kernel config file and use it as a reference to build yourself >a kernel which has virtual console support. Been there, done that. Made the entries in /dev. Changed /etc/ttys to run a getty on /dev/ttyv0. Whether I run a getty on the others or not, when I switch to onother virt. terminal the terminal driver hangs. Only way out is the big red switch :-( -- Kaleb Keithley