phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> Anyone know of a kernel patch for more virtual consoles of the text variety?

No. But how many virtual consoles do you need? Is the current limit of
64 virtual consoles too small?

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On 23 Oct 2006 11:43:36 -0700 Lew Pitcher wrote:

| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
|> Anyone know of a kernel patch for more virtual consoles of the text variety?
|
| No. But how many virtual consoles do you need? Is the current limit of
| 64 virtual consoles too small?

Yup. I'm already using them all. I would have liked to see a whole major
dedicated to this. Many device classes have a whole major number where
one might never use more than 2 or 3 of them.

Right now I have to use screen. And it's more awkward. Of course it
would help if screen had a way to pre-start some sessions. But I'd
still rather have the console devices. I'll figure out keymaps to get
them to work.

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On 2006-10-24, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2006 11:43:36 -0700 Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
>| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
>|> Anyone know of a kernel patch for more virtual consoles of the text variety?
>|
>| No. But how many virtual consoles do you need? Is the current limit of
>| 64 virtual consoles too small?
>
> Yup. I'm already using them all. I would have liked to see a whole major
> dedicated to this. Many device classes have a whole major number where
> one might never use more than 2 or 3 of them.

It's just idle curiosity -- how do you use up 64 virtual
consoles?

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:33:00 -0000 Grant Edwards wrote:
| On 2006-10-24, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
|> On 23 Oct 2006 11:43:36 -0700 Lew Pitcher wrote:
|>
|>| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
|>|> Anyone know of a kernel patch for more virtual consoles of the text variety?
|>|
|>| No. But how many virtual consoles do you need? Is the current limit of
|>| 64 virtual consoles too small?
|>
|> Yup. I'm already using them all. I would have liked to see a whole major
|> dedicated to this. Many device classes have a whole major number where
|> one might never use more than 2 or 3 of them.
|
| It's just idle curiosity -- how do you use up 64 virtual
| consoles?

Lots of stuff going on. 3 of them are used for 3 instances of X. The
rest are logged in on various aspects of things I'm doing.

I don't really need 256 of them. But a few more than I have now would
be nice. Then I could eliminate using screen.

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