virtual consoles

[Janina Sajka]

Windows via VMware, if I'm lucky. Yes, X is inaccessible and I haven';t
worked out how to get from startup into my Windows guest without
assistance. One step at a time, though.

Bottom line is that I need Windows for my work. And I particularly do not
want to shutdown linux just to go to Win for something.
 On Tue, 24 Jul
2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:

> With X being inaccessable, what do you do with X? Just curious.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:46 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: virtual consoles
>
>
> For what it's worth, I have my inittab start 11 consoles. I reserve
> Ctrl-Alt-F12 for my X sessions that way.
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
>
> > 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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