[Gllug] can't switch between virtual terminals

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Mon Aug 4 19:06:20 UTC 2003


* Ian Norton <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk> [030804 20:02]:
> 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,
> 
> 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,

You shouldn't need to reboot - just telinit Q or whatever the command is.

jack

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