Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8...
On Monday 27 October 2003 19:10, Chris Niekel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > I think I need to make more tty-devices, and I'm using devfs, so
> > the short question is: How can I make more than the usual tty0 to
> > tty8? (Because it is only those in Debian from the start,
> > right...?)
> >
> > I'm not feeling very at home in this, it is quite well above my
> > head for the moment. I have RTFM,
> > http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/
> > docs/devfs.html#how-it-works to be specific, but I really don't
> > understand it... So I hope someone can help... :-)
>
> manual> When a lookup operation on an entry is performed and if there
> is no manual> driver information for that entry devfs will attempt to
> call devfsd.
>
> After reading that link a bit, I think it should be handled by
> devfsd.
Yeah, I thought so too.
> Do you have that running?
It is running, yes:
kjetil@owl:~> ps ax | grep devfsd
23 ? S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev
(I found that if devfsd isn't running and devfs is attempted mounted, a
"bad superblock" message will stop the bootup. It put me off for
several days.)
Hm, I have the devfs=mount line in my lilo.conf, and compiled into the
kernel that it should be loaded at bootup. And dmesg says:
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
and
Mounted devfs on /dev
But now, it seems like it isn't mounted... Weird.
mount says:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext3
(rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on /home type ext3 (rw,noexec)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 on /tmp type ext3
(rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /home/felles type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /usr/local/src type ext3 (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 on /var/junk type ext2
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
Any ideas...?
Best,
Kjetil
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