docs/104376: Device names listed in the syscons(4) page do not match the actual names under /dev
Michaël Le Barbier
michael.lebarbier at laposte.net
Fri Oct 13 12:00:48 UTC 2006
>Number: 104376
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Device names listed in the syscons(4) page do not match the actual names under /dev
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 13 12:00:38 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Michaël Le Barbier
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1_RELEASE
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
amd64
6.1_RELEASE
>Description:
The syscons(4) manual page asserts that device are numbered following a DECIMAL RADIX scheme, e.g. the Alt-F11 shortcut brings on the elfth Virtual TTY, named `ttyv10' in syscons(4). It happens that `ls /dev' shows `ttyva' instead, thus following an HEXADECIMAL RADIX scheme. The documentation names are then incoherent with the actual names.
>How-To-Repeat:
ls /dev/ttyv*
man 4 syscons
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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