Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:21:44 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <199603131321.AAA05044@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199603130730.IAA09940@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 13, 96 08:30:43 am
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>As Bruce Evans wrote: > >> >syscons uses a different tty structure for the console than for VT1. >> 0 > >No, syscons (and xfree86, FWIW) follows the somewhat weird SysV/SCO >naming philosophy where the first available virtual terminal has got >number one, i.e. VT1 == vt01 (xfree86) == /dev/ttyv0. > >In order to switch to this VT by ioctl(VT_ACTIVATE), you ought to pass >a `1', not `0'. Well, on SVR4, VT1 (/dev/vt01) is not the first VT, but the one activated with Alt-SysReq F1. The first one is /dev/vt00, which is activated with Alt-SysReq H (H for "home" I think). I think that in XFree86 we tried to keep the relationship between the VT numbering and the way it is activated consistent across different OSs. /dev/vt00 and /dev/console are the same device on SVR4 (at least by default). David
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