[oe-users] How to respawn virtual terminal on ttyX?

[Panayot Daskalov]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem instructing bitbake to add a line in /etc/inittab 
which will respawn a virtual terminal on the VGA port along with the one 
on the serial console. As far as I understood I should add a USE_VT="1" 
in my machine.conf and this is enough. I tried several ways to do that 
but now luck. Here is a little info about my configuration - in 
machine.conf I have:

USE_VT = "1"
SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS="1"
SERIAL_CONSOLE = "57600 ttyAM0"

strange thing is that an entry for a serial console is added to 
/etc/inittab based on the SERIAL_CONSOLE value, but using USE_VT does 
not do anything. Also in my task-boot I have:

DISTRO_INIT_MANAGER ?= "sysvinit"

Does anybody have an idea how can I solve this? Any info is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Panayot Daskalov

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Panayot Daskalov
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