On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:10:32AM -0700, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> It is not your fault; the virtual terminal support does not exist on all
> ports of NetBSD yet.
> 
> Virtual terminals are part of the VGA text mode driver, but many ports do
> not use this (possibly because they run VGA cards in graphics mode only).
> 
> There have been debates about how to get generalized virtual terminals
> into the graphics console code, but AFAIK nothing exists even in -current.

... and though you can't get wscons VTs properly, using a utility like
screen (pkgsrc/misc/screen) will get the functionality the original
poster wanted.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net