Re: udev 024 and missing virtual consoles

[Todd Musall <tmusall@comcast.net>]

Philippe,

That was it :) Thank you very much. I suspected that /dev/vc/0 was a
devfs naming convention (which arch linux uses) and just needed to use
the standard kernel device name but wasn't sure. Thanks again for the
help.

-Todd

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:33, Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
> Hello Tod,
> 
> If by any chance, your /etc/inittab has something like:
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/1
> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/2
> etc..
> 
> then replace it by:
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> etc..
> 
> and look if this helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Philippe
>  
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:19:17 -0400
> Todd Musall <tmusall@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>   | I'm running udev 024 over /dev with on a 2.6.5 kernel and directory
>   | /dev/vc isn't being created. I had to manually create the vc devices to
>   | get logged in.
>   | 
>   | I searched the list archives and found an older thread talking about a
>   | patch to create virtual consoles. Does anyone know if this is still an
>   | issue, or I'm missing something? I'm using the start_udev script as
>   | described in HOWTO-udev_for_dev on an Arch linux distro that uses a
>   | simple LFS init system. Any help here is greatly appreciated.
>   | 
>   | Thanks.
>   | -- 
>   | Todd Musall <tmusall@comcast.net>
-- 
Todd Musall <tmusall@comcast.net>



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