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Ukne...@aol.com
Jul 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/16/00
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Hello all,
I am having difficulty getty the virtual terminals to work on my 7600. I have looked on the netbsd web site and edited the rc.conf files and the ttys file and I tried using alt and the F keys, command and the F keys, and control and the F keys and none of the combinations worked? Am I doing something wrong or did I miss a file to edit?
I am having difficulty getty the virtual terminals to work on my 7600. I have looked on the netbsd web site and edited the rc.conf files and the ttys file and I tried using alt and the F keys, command and the F keys, and control and the F keys and none of the combinations worked? Am I doing something wrong or did I miss a file to edit?
Thanks,
Fedil
Kevan Olhausen
Jul 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/16/00
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I haven't gotten NetBSD running on my machine yet but in Linux, at least,
with a mac you use Ctrl-Command-Fkey. You may have already tried this
though.
with a mac you use Ctrl-Command-Fkey. You may have already tried this
though.
Todd Whitesel
Jul 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/17/00
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> I am having difficulty getty the virtual terminals to work on my 7600.
>I have looked on the netbsd web site and edited the rc.conf files and the
>ttys file and I tried using alt and the F keys, command and the F keys, and
>control and the F keys and none of the combinations worked? Am I doing
>something wrong or did I miss a file to edit?
>I have looked on the netbsd web site and edited the rc.conf files and the
>ttys file and I tried using alt and the F keys, command and the F keys, and
>control and the F keys and none of the combinations worked? Am I doing
>something wrong or did I miss a file to edit?
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.
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com
gabriel rosenkoetter
Jul 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/17/00
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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.
> 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
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