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From: raboczi@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Simon Raboczi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] virtual consoles in FreeBSD?
Date: 20 Dec 93 05:58:29 GMT
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
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norbert@menetekel.kiel.sub.org (Norbert Roeschmann) writes:
>dan@oea.hobby.nl writes:
>>Does FreeBSD support virtual consoles? If so, how are they activated.
>I don't think it does, in fact I didn't find out if virtual terminals
>are supported. I use the "screen-351" package, it works well and it
>compiles without much pain.
You need to use the syscons console driver rather than syscons to get
virtual consoles. Have a look at /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS as a model,
adjust your own kernel config, replacing the pc0 device with sc0, and
build a new kernel. You'll also have to modify your /etc/ttys file to
use /dev/ttyv? entries instead of /dev/console.
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