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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] virtual consoles in FreeBSD?
Date: 27 Dec 1993 19:16:58 +0100
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>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.
If you wanna try another one, use pcvt. It's currently in its final beta
stage for release 3.00. It is larger than syscons, but provides a rather
good vt220-style terminal emulator along with some other nifty features.
(Btw., at least for me it fixes all the known bugs that occur with syscons
[console hangs after /etc/daily ran; cannot safely run getty on /dev/console])
Do get the beta only if you have a serious interest in testing - the Dresden
University has a very slow line.
The distribution server for pcvt is ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de alias irz301.
inf.tu-dresden.de alias irzr11.inf.tu-dresden.de. The official release
is placed under ~ftp/pub/unix/386bsd/pcvt, the betas can be found under
~ftp/pub/incoming/unix/386bsd/pcvt [directory _is_ readable]. Someone
told me that he has uploaded the latest beta as agate.berkeley.edu:
~ftp/pub/incoming/pcvt-b7.tar.gz -- but i can't ftp at the moment and
thus cannot confirm this.
pcvt will run on all the free i386/BSD systems.
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