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From: weisberg@kirchoff.ee.rochester.edu (Jeff Weisberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Establishing multiple terminals
Date: 27 Dec 1994 09:26:25 -0500
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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scotts@som.siu.edu said:
| Help.  I would like to establish multiple terminals under NetBSD 1.0.
| What I am referring to is the ability to hit something like alt-F1, alt-F2,
| etc. and have multiple logons.  We currently have this type of set up on 
| our SCO box at work and I would very much like to have it under NetBSD on
| my system at home.
| 
| Is this something I might find in an FAQ?  Is this even possible?
|

Yes, it is possible, in your kernel config file, comment out the pc0 line,
and uncomment the vt0 line (it will look something like the following)

#pc0    at isa? port 0x60 irq 1
vt0     at isa? port 0x60 irq 1

you will then need to rebuild the kernel. There is some nice reading
material in .../src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/ as well as some useful
utilities.


happy holidays
	--jeff