Re: virtual consoles

[Frank Carmickle <frankiec@braille.uwo.ca>]

Hi all

I don't believe that there is a compile time option for number of virtual
terminals.  I think your getting confused with the number of ttys in the
pts file system.  Yes you will need to mknod new ttys in /dev if
your distro didn't make as many as you desire.  

Also to clear up some things about the x sessions.  They do not run gettys
or act like ttys.  And they do not need to be using a frame buffer.  As
long as you've have an x-server running for your video card then you
should be able to switch to the virtual terminal running a graphical log
in manager like xdm or gdm.  
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I don't know about kernel compile options at this time but I just went
> into inittab and added another console (c7 for tty7) and then did a "init
> q" to restart the getties and I now have a seventh terminal available.
> Didn't realize it would be so easy.  Not sure what the upper limit is; I
> thought the kernel had a limit to the number of tty's that could be
> created.  This might even have to do with the number of devices in /dev.
> 
> These linux internals get more interesting every day!
> 
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 
> > I thought the number of consoles was determined by compile time options
> > for the kernel.  Also, look in /etc/initab.  That file has startup code
> > for the first six consules and I'm quite sure you just add the additional
> > ones you need.  I'm not really sure about kernel compil options if that is

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