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From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More virtual terminals
Date: 15 Aug 1995 15:23:42 GMT
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Kevin (klo@digital.net) wrote:
: How do I go about adding more virutal terminals? MAKEDEV doesn't want to 
: make any more, and I can't seem to find it in my kernel config file 
: (maybe I'm blind or something).

The default kernel comes with 4 vtys (ttyv[0-3]) builtin.
If you want to have more you gotta build a new kernel
with the line

options "MAXCONS=n"

where n is something like 8 or 12 for example.(maximum is 16 but you
don't have more than 12 function keys either).
Also you need to cd /dev; MAKEDEV vty12 if you want to have more than 4 
(default).


: Thanks . . .

: --
:       ^       
:     _' `_      * Kevin Lo -- http://www.geopages.com/SiliconValley/1070/    
:  .-~'   `~-.    - klo@digital.net         * FDC Merlin   
: (  ' __. `  )  * FreeBSD 2.0.5R / DOS     * AKA Radnor on most MUSH/MUSEs
:  `-''   ``-'  GCS/MU/Od+H-s!gp?!aua--w++v++C++++HU+P+L3N+++E----KW+M--V---po+
:                Y+t+++5--jRG+@tv++b++D++B---e(+)u++h!f+!rn---x?
:   

--
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950619 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995
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