Subject: Re: Virtual console utilities
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/14/1997 18:00:39
Anne Bennett wrote:
...
> Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> wrote:
> 
> [To configure virtual consoles on NetBSD]
> > 
> > You have to use the pcvt console driver, by replacing pc0 with vt0 in
> > your kernel config.  There are a number of additional options to
> > configure pcvt; see src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/Doc/*.
> 
> After reading the docs in question and looking around, I figured out
> that the utilities in /sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/Util were not installed
> by default, so now I've installed them.  Is this an oversight?  It
> strikes me that it would be useful if the pcvt utilities were simply
> installed along with everything else.

Now I see why pcvt_ioctl.h was missing when building X... I hadn't
made pcvt first - another vote for `simply installing along with
everything else'

Patrick