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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