On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 00:42, Alan Dawson wrote: > I've got a sparc which I'm running debian woody on. Its a distribution I'm > unfamiliar with. It doesn't seem to have support for multiple tty's out of the > box. Anybody know what needs to be done to enable them? By multiple tty's, do you mean multiple virtual terminals? As in the Ctrl-F1, F2 etc. business? Woody should have them enabled by default. Check your /etc/inittab - firstly, to see what runlevel you're booting into, you should find a section like: # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: That means your default runlevel is 2 - which is normal for Debian. Then, check you do have the terminal entries: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 This too is standard Debian, so if you had changed your runlevel to 4 or 5 you wouldn't get the extra terminals. 1 to 6 is the id of the terminal, the next field is the list of runlevels in which it exists, 'respawn' tells init to start it up again when you exit/logout of a terminal, and the getty bit is just the bit of software actually used to make a terminal work. If you find that you have a strange runlevel or something, you don't need to reboot to make any changes you make effective - just a kill -HUP init will do. Cheers, Alex.
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