From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 10:17:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16971 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 10:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from situ.rad.net.id (situ.rad.net.id [202.154.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16945 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 10:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Leonard_Ong@iname.com) Received: from ZhugeLiang (dyn2168a.dialin.rad.net.id [202.154.7.168]) by situ.rad.net.id (8.9.1/RADNET) with SMTP id AAA16485 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 00:15:49 +0700 (WIB) Message-Id: <199809051715.AAA16485@situ.rad.net.id> X-Sender: ong@pop.rad.net.id X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.49 (Beta) Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:06:53 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Leonard Ong Subject: Virtual Console Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I want to expand my virtual console from default 3 active and 1 inactive to much more. I have done : 1) compiling kernel with option MAXCONS=16 ( more than needed ) 2) edit ttys to following : ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv10 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv11 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure But it complained that it can't start tty4-11... what's should i do more ? I want to have virtual console active from F1-F5, F6 for xwindows, F7-F8 reserved, F9 syslog messgae, F10-12 reserved. Please let me know what i'm lacking, Thank you To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message