[Gllug] can't switch between virtual terminals

Sean Burlington sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Mon Aug 4 20:34:39 UTC 2003


Ian Norton wrote:
> Hello, I am top posting,
> 
> I have read the other posts, it does seem that your machine is set-up to only
> have one virtual console, take a look in /etc/inittab and find the lines with
> 'getty' these are the ones with your vcons setups in, i expect you will only
> see 1 line enabled and the others commented out,

fraid not

tty[0-6] enabled in /etc/inittab

/etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers
:0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X  -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt7


> its something people sometimes do if they have a box where console wont work
> correctly on thier monitors, (ie, my Sun LX and its fixed frequency Radius
> screen)  just un comment those lines or write some new ones and then become
> root and reboot,
> 

I'm wondering if it's a keyboard issue ?

the only odd keyboard issue is that in emacs the windows key works as 
the meta key (alt doesn't)

-- 

Sean


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