LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man4 / console.4

diff --git a/original/man4/console.4 b/original/man4/console.4
index 30040cd..506d237 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man4/console.4
+++ b/original/man4/console.4
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1994 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl), Mon Oct 31 21:03:19 MET 1994
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_ONEPARA)
 .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
 .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
 .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Modified, Sun Feb 26 14:58:45 1995, faith@cs.unc.edu
 .\" "
@@ -11,26 +13,39 @@
 .SH NAME
 console \- console terminal and virtual consoles
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-A Linux system has up to 63 \fIvirtual consoles\fP
+A Linux system has up to 63
+.I "virtual consoles"
 (character devices with major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63),
-usually called \fI/dev/tty\fP\fIn\fP with 1 \(<= \fIn\fP \(<= 63.
+usually called
+.I /dev/ttyn
+with 1 \(<=
+.I n
+\(<= 63.
 The current console is also addressed by
-\fI/dev/console\fP or \fI/dev/tty0\fP, the character device with
+.I /dev/console
+or
+.IR /dev/tty0 ,
+the character device with
 major number 4 and minor number 0.
-The device files /dev/* are usually created using the script MAKEDEV,
+The device files
+.I /dev/*
+are usually created using the script MAKEDEV,
 or using
 .BR mknod (1),
-usually with mode 0622 and owner root.tty.
+usually with mode 0622 and owner
+.IR root.tty .
 .LP
 Before kernel version 1.1.54 the number of virtual consoles was
-compiled into the kernel (in tty.h: #define NR_CONSOLES 8)
+compiled into the kernel (in
+.IR tty.h :
+#define NR_CONSOLES 8)
 and could be changed by editing and recompiling.
 Since version 1.1.54 virtual consoles are created on the fly,
 as soon as they are needed.
 .LP
 Common ways to start a process on a console are:
 (a) tell
-.BR init (8)
+.BR init (1)
 (in
 .BR inittab (5))
 to start a
@@ -47,7 +62,9 @@ and display its output there.
 .BR doshell (8).)
 .LP
 Common ways to switch consoles are: (a) use Alt+F\fIn\fP or
-Ctrl+Alt+F\fIn\fP to switch to console \fIn\fP; AltGr+F\fIn\fP
+Ctrl+Alt+F\fIn\fP to switch to console
+.IR n ;
+AltGr+F\fIn\fP
 might bring you to console \fIn\fP+12 [here Alt and AltGr refer
 to the left and right Alt keys, respectively];
 (b) use Alt+RightArrow or Alt+LeftArrow to cycle through
@@ -59,7 +76,8 @@ the above mentioned key combinations are according to the default settings.)
 .LP
 The command
 .BR deallocvt (1)
-(formerly \fBdisalloc\fP)
+(formerly
+.BR disalloc )
 will free the memory taken by the screen buffers for consoles
 that no longer have any associated process.
 .SS Properties
@@ -74,9 +92,10 @@ All escape sequences can be found in
 .I /dev/console
 .br
 .I /dev/tty*
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR chvt (1),
 .BR deallocvt (1),
+.BR init (1),
 .BR loadkeys (1),
 .BR mknod (1),
 .BR openvt (1),
@@ -86,8 +105,16 @@ All escape sequences can be found in
 .BR ttyS (4),
 .BR charsets (7),
 .BR agetty (8),
-.BR init (8),
 .BR mapscrn (8),
 .BR mingetty (8),
 .BR resizecons (8),
 .BR setfont (8)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.