Re: a patch for more virtual consoles?

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?

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