Subject: Re: defaults for wscons(4)/wsdisplay(4)/wscons.conf/ttys
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: None <xs@kittenz.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/07/2002 10:36:42
on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:12:49AM +0000, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> "Brian A. Seklecki" wrote:
>
> > In the mean time, is there a reason why the default system doesn't ship w/
> > all 8 (7?) virtual screen/display's enabled?
>
> XFree86 needs an unused virtual screen. What I like to do is to have
> getty running on ttyE[0-5], reserve ttyE6 for X, and have syslog dump
> everything on ttyE7.
Is this still the case with XFree86 4.2.0? I'm using it without a spare
tty and it just uses the tty that it was launched on.