I am running on an Intel Pentium 133 MHz machine with the i386 binary port of
Generic NetBSD-1.4.1.

Does wscons appear in the process list when you do 'ps -acx' on your machine?

I suspect that 'init' is not setting up the terminals as defined in 'ttys',
but I see three 'getty' processes occuring, and now 'wscons', when running 'ps -acx'.

I did not realize that only the i386 port supports wscons.  Will support be
extended to other platforms?

Thanks for your interest in this.  I would like to get wscons running.  My
mklinux box has virtual terminals and it is rather convenient.

Happy New Year

Jim Nelson

Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> 
> On which platform are you trying to run wscons? AFAIK, only
> netbsd-i386 supports virtual terminals.
> 
> > wscons is enable in the rc.conf file.  The error messages during boot indicate
> > that wsconscfg is trying to set up the terminal.  It appears that init is
> > failing to get getty to run.  The following is my process list.  I do not see
> > a wscons running, though I see three getty processes.
> 
> the script runs during bootup and you will not find a wscons process
> anywhere. The only evidence are three getty process, the same you've
> mentioned.
> 
> Perhaps time to build a custom kernel selecting the options for wscons
> there. I am not an expert myself so can only give limited advice on
> this problem.
> 
> cheerio Berndt