It has to do with the wscons (sp?) driver, which does not support the virtual
consoles on port-sparc, like it would, for example, on i386

The easiest way to achieve the same effect is to use a program like 'screen'

-Tyler

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R. Tyler Ballance
NetBSD-FreeBSD-L4::Pistachio

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Sean Hafeez <sahafeez@zaphodb.org>
To: "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@ekkobsd.org>
Sent: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:12:24 -0700
Subject: Re: Dumb question - switching consoles

> I am sorry but I do not understand you answer. I think you are 
> trying to say it does not work on non-ps/2 port systems? If so that 
> is not true, well, in Linux it works on this same SS20.
> 
> On Sep 3, 2004, at 9:04 PM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> 
> > I've asked this in IRC a couple times, and the best answer I could get 
> > was
> > that the console driver on architechures that use something other than 
> > PS/2
> > keyboards.
> >
> > -Tyler
> >
> > -----------------
> > R. Tyler Ballance
> > NetBSD-FreeBSD-L4::Pistachio
> >
> > ---------- Original Message -----------
> > From: Sean Hafeez <sahafeez@zaphodb.org>
> > To: NetBSD port-sparc mailing list <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
> > Sent: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:44:20 -0700
> > Subject: Dumb question - switching consoles
> >
> >> Hows do I switch consoles on a SS20 running current? Whats the key
> >> combo? I could not google it..
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Sean Hafeez
> >>
> >> "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
> >> bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against
> >> tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
> > ------- End of Original Message -------
> >
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