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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!s1.elec.uq.oz.au!raboczi 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 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <raboczi.756367109@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> References: <CI4tyu.6Kp@oea.hobby.nl> <MR9JBJGG@menetekel.kiel.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: s3.elec.uq.oz.au 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. -- ,-_|\ Simon Raboczi (raboczi@s1.elec.uq.oz.au) / * Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering \_.--_/ University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia v [Sebkha says, "We live to serve."]