Re: a patch for more virtual consoles?

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:33:00 -0000 Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 2006-10-24, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> On 23 Oct 2006 11:43:36 -0700 Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|>| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx 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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