Orca Terminal vs. Speakup [Was Main advantages of SBL over Speakup]

[Gregory Nowak]

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No, it shouldn't screw things up. Modifying /etc/inittab is pretty
much all you need to do to get more consoles as far as I recall. If
you want to be able to login as root on the extra consoles, you'll
want to make sure their listed in /etc/securetty, but that's about
it. When I was running consoles on tty8 and higher, I don't recall
ever seeing the behavior you describe on debian systems.

Greg


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:10:43AM -0800, Gaijin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:10PM +0000, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> > For a standard debian install.  Paste into /etc/inittab near the bottom
> > under the statements for the first 6.:
> 
> 	Yeah, but won't that mess things up?  I know I tried that once, 
> leaving the 1-6 consoles as is, and then adding 8-12, leaving F7 for the 
> GUI, and my system never did work right.  I think you have to modify 
> alot more than /etc/inittab to make Debian fully compliant with more 
> than 6 virtual consoles, because lots of weird things started happening, 
> and things from one console would bleed over to another.  I haven't 
> really looked around at all of what Debian's done, but I think they've 
> pretty much coded things for only 6 consoles.  I might be wrong and it 
> was just a buggy upgrade at the time.  I dunno.  udev, of course, is 
> skimpy on how to keep hardware named the way it's needed for CLI apps, 
> and leaving the symlink for /dev/cdrom alone, so I'll mess with it 
> later.
> 
> 				Michael
> 
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