Re: a patch for more virtual consoles?

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.

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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