From: Paul Mackerras This patch from Julie DeWandel makes CONFIG_VT default to N on iSeries machines which are using the iSeries virtual console driver viocons.c. The VT console and the viocons code can't coexist because they use the same tty numbers, that is, viocons supplies /dev/tty1. Without this patch the user has to figure out somehow that s/he has to turn on CONFIG_EMBEDDED in order to be able to turn off CONFIG_VT, which is really very non-obvious. --- 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/Kconfig~disable-VT-on-iSeries-by-default drivers/char/Kconfig --- 25/drivers/char/Kconfig~disable-VT-on-iSeries-by-default 2004-04-07 21:09:06.706119456 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig 2004-04-07 21:09:06.710118848 -0700 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menu "Character devices" config VT bool "Virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED select INPUT - default y + default y if !VIOCONS ---help--- If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you _