-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt66dAACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDHUACgueinz+TFMomh+Rj9PN1zk6vq JWsAnR7V9V1V05ZMPUAAP3xg/nnkIXd/ =jy00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
