Info needed: UNIX for 286/386 machines

Markz Zenier markz at ssc.UUCP
Mon Feb 22 08:12:59 AEST 1988


In article <42219 at sun.uucp>, bkm%wintermute at Sun.COM (Bruce Martin Jr.) writes:
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to increase the number of virtual consoles?
> I'd like to up the number (four can sometimes be limiting), but haven't
> found it in the manual.

For version 2.3 , it is in the release notes on page 4

to add more consoles /etc/mknod /dev/cons5 c 0 5
and add or enable the getty line for that port in /etc/inittab

Note if you boot the 2.2 kernal, it will set up two gettys on the same
virtual console and really screw up.

If you don't set up the getty, it is just a display device , useful for 
debugging output.

Only those console devices that have output will be accessable with SysReq,
so the number of consoles is variable.

My problem is that my clone keyboard locks up when the LEDs are changed, and
a keypress occurs around the same time.  This is a documented Xenix problem, 
with a patch.  Is there a patch for version 2.3?



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