mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) (01/07/89)
I am on an RT running ACIS Release 3 (4.3BSD). The machine has a monchrome display (5151) and an apa16 (6155) attached. I would like to be able to set up the machine such that getty is run on both displays, so I can log in twice. That can be done by turning on the appropriate entries in /etc/ttys. HOWEVER, when this is done, the entry made in utmp when a login is done shows ttyap16 as the tty for a 6155 login and ttymono for a 5151 login. There seems to be no readable and writable console on which to log in! If something gets written to "/dev/console" under the setup described, the output goes to whichever device currently has the input focus. If only the device specified as 'dev/console' in /etc/ttys has getty run on it, yet there are two displays, the login tty is "/dev/console", even though output can be directed to either display via an IOCTL or the keyboard key combinations that does the equivalent operation. So, the question: is it possible to set up <something> such that when I log into a specified device, say the apa16, that the login tty will be /dev/console, like it is with only a single display system, yet I can still log into the other display and have it show up as ttymono? Thanks, Marc Pawliger
mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) (01/12/89)
I am on an RT running ACIS Release 3 (4.3BSD). The machine has a monchrome display (5151) and an apa16 (6155) attached. I would like to be able to set up the machine such that getty is run on both displays, so I can log in twice. That can be done by turning on the appropriate entries in /etc/ttys. HOWEVER, when this is done, the entry made in utmp when a login is done shows ttyap16 as the tty for a 6155 login and ttymono for a 5151 login. There seems to be no readable and writable console on which to log in! If something gets written to "/dev/console" under the setup described, the output goes to whichever device currently has the input focus. If only the device specified as 'dev/console' in /etc/ttys has getty run on it, yet there are two displays, the login tty is "/dev/console", even though output can be directed to either display via an IOCTL or the keyboard key combinations that does the equivalent operation. So, the question: is it possible to set up <something> such that when I log into a specified device, say the apa16, that the login tty will be /dev/console, like it is with only a single display system, yet I can still log into the other display and have it show up as ttymono? Thanks, Marc Pawliger