From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 3 20: 1:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDDD37B406 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B39A137F36; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:01:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.11.4/8.9.3) id f8431Lj17749; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:01:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15252.17409.362982.53413@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:01:21 -0400 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Gunnar Olsson , "Freebsd Hackers (E-mail)" Subject: [hackers] Re: virtual consoles In-Reply-To: <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A031AAFF1@mail.kebne.se> <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev writes: Peter> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Gunnar Olsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To increase number of xterms I thought. only the option MAXCONS >> could be changed. But even though I change it from 16 to 32, I >> still only get 16. >> >> Someone there who can give me I quick answer? Peter> Actually, you do have 32 consoles; you just cannot switch to Ok... yes ... that's true ... you should put that setting back down to something sane. The real answer is that you need to make more pty's. Given that people use lots of xterms these days, the default of setting up 16 should be examined, too. Do this as root: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5 pty6 pty7 Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message