vty's

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 27 13:01:37 PDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:56:25PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:22:21PM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> >
> >>I thought all the systems had vty's, but when I hit all-F2, I don't get 
> >>swtiched to a different terminal.  Can you explain to me what's 
> >>different than what I expected to see here, for vtys?
> >
> >
> >That's a function of syscons, which you evidently aren't using. 
> 
> And that's usually compioled in, so I expected it in GENERIC.  OK, I can 
> see if it's needing loading.  Never had to do that before, is all, it's 
> always wokring on the i386 and amd64 versions of GENERIC.

sparc64 only supports syscons on certain graphics adapters, which is
why it's not enabled by default.  See the mailing list archives for
extensive discussion.

Kris
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