Multiple virtual terminals

[George Harrison]

Hello, I use FreeBSD mainly in CLI but I cannot figure out how to get more virtual terminals. When I punch in Ctrl + alt + F* (the star meaning a number such as F4 or something) it does nothing. There was one part in the install where it asked me if I wanted to change virtual terminals or something but I cannot remember now. Thanks for the help.

[nalg0rath]

Ok, all you have to do is ad more statemants to /etc/ttys.
Copy the last line and change the tty* to the next number. If you don't want to reboot you can run:

# kill -1 1

[George Harrison]

I'm a bit lost.. this is what I'm getting near the bottom of /etc/ttys:

ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
# Virtual terminals
ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv4   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv5   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv6   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure

everything looks ok but "Ctrl+Alt+F2" doesn't give me a thing.

[nalg0rath]

Oh, i thought that you wanted to add more tty's sorry.
I don't get what the problem is, it should be fine to do [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F2], but to be sure you could try the way you actually should do it with only [Alt]+[F2]. [Ctrl] is only needed to switch from X to console and in OpenBSD (and maybe some distros) but not in FreeBSD.

[George Harrison]

Alt+F* doesn't work.

I think that Getty isn't working either.

[nalg0rath]

Damn it!
Try this and post the output:

dmesg|grep sc

[nalg0rath]

Or ty using "vt100" console instead of "cons25", just replace "cons25" in /etc/ttys with "vt100".

[George Harrison]

Damn it!
Try this and post the output:

dmesg|grep sc

$ dmesg|grep sc
sc0&#58; <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0&#58; VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sc0&#58; <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0&#58; VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>

I'll also try out what you said on the second post.

[George Harrison]

Well the vt100 did something I think, simply because before I did it "Screen" would not work, yet now it does. I'm happy with screen nevertheless so it doesn't matter about the VT's. thanks for your time.