[BRLTTY] "Can't access console"

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Nov 8 08:41:42 EST 2007


Dave Mielke, le Thu 08 Nov 2007 08:33:53 -0500, a écrit :
> [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.

Mmm, not on my system: there is only vcsa1-6 for gettys, vcsa7 for X,
and vcsa10 for my syslogs. If I run open, I get vcsa8, and if I run
deallocvt, vcsa8 disappears.

Samuel


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