switching virtual terminals
don vogt
donvogt2001 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 7 07:55:47 UTC 2008
Message: 9
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:12:01 -0400
From: Jim Dever <jdever at triad.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Switching virtual terminals
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 05:11 -0400, Jim Dever wrote:
>> I just tried it again to make sure. From an X
session CTRL+ALT+Fn
>> works but from a text console Alt-Fn does nothing.
It's remains at
>> the same tty I was at when I issued the CTRL+ALT+Fn
from X. Any
>> ideas?
>
> I am back on Fedora 9, now, and both ALT+Fn and
CTRL+ALT+Fn are working
> for me, so the problem is probably specific to your
setup. You might
> want to say if your installation was fresh, or
updating a prior release.
>
>It's definitely a straight plain vanilla
installation. >I didn't
>download any of the development groups. Just stopped
>at the default.
>The only thing I've changed is to put it on a static
>IP address. I
>haven't even had my hands in the nuts and bolts.
I've >had the same
>problem with F8 and F7 with a straight install.
>Weird.
You might check that you have a getty on the device.
run "ps -A | less" and look for something like
1991 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
1992 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
1993 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
1994 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
1995 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
This is from my machine that works as advertised.
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