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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: vitual terminals on console? Message-ID: <1p2aug$mr4@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 27 Mar 93 19:46:24 GMT References: <733149450snz@feline.demon.co.uk> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl 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? >If so how is it done, I can find no reference to it in any FAQ, man files, >etc etc All of which leads me to believe that I was told an untruth!! >Regards >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.) -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0