Subject: Re: defaults for wscons(4)/wsdisplay(4)/wscons.conf/ttys
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/07/2002 09:12:49
"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.

Jared

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