Actually, your not past the level of info I requested or understand. None the less, thank you. I am with you. I am not as much a newbie as I sometimes make my self out to be. There are a lot of holes in my knowledge ... which as you see I am trying to fill. I aspire to be a proto-hacker in the larval stage ( search terms "computer geek" and "larval stage" with package kdict .) For example I know how to work with directories/files, create delete/ mv , change permissions etc. I have also configured and compiled kernels with $make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage etc, and modules and of course source for binaries. But again I still consider myself a novice. Thanks but still.... I still get the following after a regular SuSE KDM-logon for $who with Konsole max@linux:~> who max :0 Sep 5 17:13 (console) max pts/0 Sep 5 17:13 max pts/1 Sep 5 19:44 max@linux:~> obviously pts/1 is my Konsole session But is :0 primary intial session , and pts/0 X-server session ? or is it that pts/0 is the xconsole for error/sys messages <ALT>+<F10> ? Max On Thursday 05 September 2002 06:45 am, Derek Fountain wrote:
We're way past the level of info the original poster wanted, but just to clarify this: what you get to when you hit <alt-Fn> is a previously opened *virtual* terminal. These are started at boot time and have specific device files: /dev/ttyX. The one, single, real console is generally on <alt-F1>: /dev/tty0 (or an alternative if reconfigured).
The poster was refering to *pseudo* terminals, which don't exist until requested via the master /dev/ptmx interface. At that point the pseudo terminal connection is created-on-demand for the xterm or whatever to use.