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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] virtual consoles in FreeBSD?
Date: 20 Dec 1993 21:21:59 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CI4tyu.6Kp@oea.hobby.nl>,  <dan@oea.hobby.nl> wrote:
>
>Does FreeBSD support virtual consoles? If so, how are they activated.

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.


Nate
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