Virtual Console Problem

Gregory P. Ennis PoMec at PoMec.Net
Tue Nov 8 22:45:09 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:29 +0000, John Austin wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:12 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> > I ma installing 3 desktop FC4 systems on E-Machine's.  Everything has
> > gone pretty well except that I when I switch to the virtual consoles
> > using <Cntrl><Alt>F1 etc.  The screen either becomes black or remains
> > the same but is unusable.  I am able to switch back to the gui with
> > <alt>F7 and continue, but the virtual consoles are inoperative.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Greg
> >  
> > 
> yum update to the latest xorg-x11 which is something like
> xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386
> 
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242
> especially comment #193 for the gory details
> 
> John
> 
John,

Thanks for the information.  Unfortunately, I already had that upgrade
installed in each unit.  I read the comment #193 and will post another
bug.

Greg





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