On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, tb wrote: > when i compiled my kernel i had it set to 8 ttyCx's. does anyone know > why ttyC4, 6, and 7 are turned off? On i386, getty doesn't run on ttyC4 because that's where the X server runs. At least, that's where it runs with xdm (see /var/X11/xdm for more details), and I never use startx because xdm is so easy!