<crtl><alt><F*> not working

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:20 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 00:36 +0930, Mark Bradbury wrote:

All your messages are appearing twice.

> > On 6/18/05, Fred New <Fred.New at microlink.ee> wrote:
> > > On 17. juuni 2005. a. 17:31, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> > > > Just did an upgrade from FC3 to FC4 and all went cool
> > > > only thing I found not working is that a <ctrl><alt><F*> is not
> > > > working I get a green border from top left to bottom right. any one
> > > > else have this prob ?. I need the console for vdr please help
> > > >
> > > You're correct, virtual consoles don't appear on my system, either.
> > > Try rebooting without "rhgb".  This works for me.
> > > 
> > 
> > How do I do that ?
> 
> vi /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove rhgb from the kernel lines of the
> config file.  Reboot.

Or at boot time, type "a" and delete the "rhgb quiet" part of the kernel
line.  Could also add back a "3" to boot in runlevel 3 rather than 5 and
see if that makes a difference.

Phil

P.S.  Shouldn't this whole thread be on "fedora-list"?  Doesn't look
like a test problem.