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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Markz Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Info needed: UNIX for 286/386 machines
Message-ID: <1036@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 22:12:59 GMT
References: <4213@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <863@athos.rutgers.edu> <42219@sun.uucp>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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Summary: Adding virtual consoles to 286

In article <42219@sun.uucp>, bkm%wintermute@Sun.COM (Bruce Martin Jr.) writes:
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to increase the number of virtual consoles?
> I'd like to up the number (four can sometimes be limiting), but haven't
> found it in the manual.

For version 2.3 , it is in the release notes on page 4

to add more consoles /etc/mknod /dev/cons5 c 0 5
and add or enable the getty line for that port in /etc/inittab

Note if you boot the 2.2 kernal, it will set up two gettys on the same
virtual console and really screw up.

If you don't set up the getty, it is just a display device , useful for 
debugging output.

Only those console devices that have output will be accessable with SysReq,
so the number of consoles is variable.

My problem is that my clone keyboard locks up when the LEDs are changed, and
a keypress occurs around the same time.  This is a documented Xenix problem, 
with a patch.  Is there a patch for version 2.3?