*BSD News Article 91427


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!usenet
From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get terminals to work?
Date: 17 Mar 1997 10:21:38 GMT
Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <5gj5vi$oio@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
References: <6SzbJmx3o$B@rimki.toppoint.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5660

In article <6SzbJmx3o$B@rimki.toppoint.de>,
	chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) writes:

> I've read the man pages about getty and the like, I know what the FAQ
> says, and I have played with all the settings in /etc/ttys and some of
> /etc/gettytab, but after tens of reboots the terminal does not work.

I suggest that you show us the relevant lines of /etc/ttys, along with the
output of "dmesg" right after a reboot.

> Do I need to compile the kernel with "options UCONSOLE" defined ?
no.
> Until now I thought that were an option for X11 only.
yes.

-- 
--
Unsolicited junk e-mail will be proofread at US$50.- per page. By sending
such e-mail to my address, you accept these terms.