[BRLTTY] "Can't access console"

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Thu Nov 8 08:33:53 EST 2007


[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2007/11/08 at 11:55 +0000]

>udev creates them because gettys get launched and thus virtual consoles
>get allocated.

It has to be more complicated than that because there are vcsa<n> devices for 
which there aren't corresponding gettys. For example, a common case is gettys 
for 1-6, X on 7, and 8-12 being unassigned yet they all have vcsa<n> devices.

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