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/dev/console points to tty0?
I've been trying to understand the /dev/console device, but there are a few things I'm not clear on:
What is the purpose of this device? From what I can gather it's just a place for the kernel to ...
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Why are there so many virtual terminal devices?
I've been reading the advanced linux programming book availalble free online linky and it mentiones about virtual terminals which if I understood it correctly it is a Linux specific feature (not in ...
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set baud speed for tty
How do I set the baud speed for a specific tty (in this case a serial port)? I tried using
stty -F /dev/tty.iap ispeed 19200
But get the error Invalid argument for every speed I try (2400, 4800, ...
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Change the number of generated /dev/tty devices
I'm building an embedded Linux system, based on Gentoo. Using udev, all tty devices are probed with a PROGRAM stanza to determine if they are a modem.
Right now the system boots up with 64 /dev/tty*. ...
