thanks everyone for your help. I was able to get it to work. Just another question prompted by the message to which I'm replying. How did you get the mail client to quote my message using the opening line: "Lorenzo Prince staggered into view and mumbled:" Really cool. I want to get my system to do that too. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > Lorenzo Prince staggered into view and mumbled: > > > >Just a question, probably unrelated, but does anyone happen to know how I > >can login to more tty's than just 6? My system will only let me login to > >tty's 1 through 6, and I see over 40 tty's in /dev. How can I login to > >all these other consoles or are they just there to make newbies like me to > >ask silly questions? LOL. > > > I started with 6 tty's here as well, and added 10 more to be able > to run a bunch of stuff all at once (man pages, telnet/ssh to other > systems, distributed.net projects, a screen or two of file editing, > etc.). Tty1-tty12 are easy to get to quickly by pressing ALT-Fn > where n is the number of a function key--1 through 12. To reach the > other 4 (tty13-tty16), I usually press ALT-LEFTARROW or > ALT-RIGHTARROW to cycle through the tty's until I get where I want. > Jumping directly to a tty can be accomplished by running `chvt' from > a shell prompt (see the man page for `chvt'). Below is what worked > on my Slackware 8.0 system: > > 1. Log on as root to gain access to the necessary programs and > filees. > > 2. Load the /etc/inittab file into your favorite editor. > > 3. Search for the lines in the file which set up login screens for > tty1-tty6. I found the following entries in my /etc/inittab file > (note that all of the entries except for tty6 use the same run > levels): > > c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux > c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux > c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux > c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux > c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux > > 4. Add additional similarly formatted lines for the additional > tty's. Be sure to make appropriate changes (c7-c16 and tty7-tty16) > as needed. Below are the lines I added to give me more tty's: > > c7:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux > c8:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux > c9:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux > c10:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty10 linux > c11:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty11 linux > c12:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty12 linux > c13:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty13 linux > c14:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty14 linux > c15:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty15 linux > c16:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty16 linux > > 5. Save the /etc/inittab file when the changes are complete. > > 6. At the root shell prompt, run `telinit q' to make the changes > active. If the changes you made are error free, the tty's you added > should be displaying login screens. > > Since Speakup is in the kernel, it works fine on all of the tty's I > added (thanks to the Speakup developers for a job well done:)). See > the man pages for `telinit', 'chvt', and `inittab'. I hope this > rather wordy message proves helpful. Have a _great_ day. > > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. > _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
