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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:12:34 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: "vga" in /etc/ttys
Message-ID:  <199601160912.KAA16576@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601160410.VAA25206@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Jan 15, 96 09:10:30 pm

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As Don Yuniskis wrote:

>     Is "vga" still a viable option for "console" in /etc/ttys?
> Or has it been deprecated in favor of "just another ttyv*"?

MAKEDEV says:

         ln -fs ttyv0 vga        # XXX X still needs this pccons relic

Well, i'm not even sure if it's still required, i would have to look
up the X server sources again.  You won't gain much from using it in
/etc/ttys, apparently.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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