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by Alan Coopersmit » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 06:38:10
Solaris 8 does not have this virtual terminals feature.
(Earlier versions of Solaris on Intel did, but Solaris on Sparc never
did, and now neither one does.)
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by Michael T Pi » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 08:35:09
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by G.T. » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 11:30:59
> >Hello Everybody
> >I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can used
> >multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
> >not.Does anybody know the configuration?
> >Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single machine
> >(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
> If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such silly
> things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
Greg
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by David J. A. Plaun » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:13:51
How about this option from gnu? I haven't used it, but it sounds good.Quote:> > >Hello Everybody
> > >I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can used
> > >multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
> > >not.Does anybody know the configuration?
> > >Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single machine
> > >(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
> > If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such silly
> > things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
> It's not silly if you need or want only to work at a text console (or
> several).
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html
by ursu » Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:44:42
Linux, FreeBSD and SCO developers don't think they're
such 'silly' things and they seem to be able to implement
this feature with their eyes closed. :^)
>>Hello Everybody
>>I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can used
>>multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
>>not.Does anybody know the configuration?
>>Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single machine
>>(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
>If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such silly
>things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
by Mikko Tyolajar » Mon, 05 Feb 2001 04:03:03
>>>Hello Everybody
>>>I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can used
>>>multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
>>>not.Does anybody know the configuration?
>>>Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single machine
>>>(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
>>If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such silly
>>things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
The XFree86 documentation describes how to turn on virtual
terminals, which is/has been present as an unsupported feature
in solaris x86. I vaguely remember trying it out some time long ago
(2.6 or maybe 2.5.1). I have no idea whether it will still work
in 2.8, errr.. 5.8, no I mean 8. Damn marketing.
$.02,
/Mikko
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by dmuhr.. » Mon, 05 Feb 2001 05:38:26
I don't know about SCO, but Linux and FreeBSD don't have any choice aboutQuote:> Linux, FreeBSD and SCO developers don't think they're
> such 'silly' things and they seem to be able to implement
> this feature with their eyes closed. :^)
Dave
> >>Hello Everybody
> >>I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can used
> >>multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
> >>not.Does anybody know the configuration?
> >>Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single machine
> >>(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
> >If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such silly
> >things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
by unixwee.. » Tue, 06 Feb 2001 06:31:42
> > >Hello Everybody
> > >I am beginer in "Solaris 8".I am facing a problem.In Linux I can
used
> > >multiple Login by pressing Alt+F1,Alt+f2 etc.But in Solaris I could
> > >not.Does anybody know the configuration?
> > >Is it possible to login as a more different user in a single
machine
> > >(Not over Dialup or Ethernet Lan.)
> > If you mean virtual terminals, no, Solaris doesn't support such
silly
> > things. Just open another xterm and "su -" to the other user.
> It's not silly if you need or want only to work at a text console (or
> several).
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by D. Roc » Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:51:51
>> Linux, FreeBSD and SCO developers don't think they're
>> such 'silly' things and they seem to be able to implement
>> this feature with their eyes closed. :^)
> I don't know about SCO, but Linux and FreeBSD don't have any choice about
> implementing vts. They are distributed with versions of X11-6.3 which
> requires a vt on which to bind. X11-6.4, which is used by Solaris 8 does not
> require a vt and expecting a commercial entity like Sun to provide such
> unnecessary things in its kernel is ridiculous.
After Solaris 8 was available, because of the change in the console behaviour,
XFree didn't work on Solaris 8. They added support for in in the now available
4.x branch (maybe they backported it to 3.x).
This has nothing to do with X11R6.3 vs. X11R6.4
You can grab the latest XFree86 code and it will run on Solaris 2.x, 7, 8
FreeBSD, ... All with different backends for the OS dependent part, of course.
FreeBSD has at least 2 different system console implementations which require
different handling by the Xserver.
Personally, I never missed virtual VTs on Solaris, but I regularly use them
in FreeBSD - it's just a matter of working style.
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by Alan Coopersmit » Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:25:31
The X version has nothing to do with it - XFree86 binds to a vt because
the vt support is there in Linux, FreeBSD, etc. On platforms like
Solaris 8 without vt support, it just runs without binding to a vt.
I believe vt's originally came from AT&T SVR3 - Solaris/x86 inherited it
from it's SVR3-based Interactive Unix roots and had vt's until the
console driver subsystem was completely redone in Solaris 8. Sun,
XFree86, & XiG all had to adapt their X servers for Solaris 8 to remove
vt support that was present in their versions for earlier Solaris/x86
versions.
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by Logan Sh » Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:57:40
And let's not forget AIX's hft ("high function terminal"). It did theQuote:>I believe vt's originally came from AT&T SVR3 - Solaris/x86 inherited it
>from it's SVR3-based Interactive Unix roots and had vt's until the
>console driver subsystem was completely redone in Solaris 8. Sun,
>XFree86, & XiG all had to adapt their X servers for Solaris 8 to remove
>vt support that was present in their versions for earlier Solaris/x86
>versions.
When IBM came out with AIX 4.x, they removed the hft and replaced it
with the lft. You guessed it -- it stands for "low function
terminal".
Apparently, the reasoning was that while the hft was a convenient thing
to have around, it made porting new versions of X11 to the system a
pain because of the pointless complexity. That was, supposedly, the
reason why IBM was on X11R3 for quite some time while the rest of the
world had moved to X11R4. (Or was that X11R4 while the rest of the
world was on X11R5? It's been a while since I used AIX 3.2.x...)
Anyway, the point is that even IBM was able to realize that sometimes
simpler is better.
- Logan
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