On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote:
> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing-
> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6
> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens.

On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin Ross wrote:

> CTRL-ALT-Fx is for switching virtual consoles while X is running. Use just
> ALT-Fx while at a regular console.

Yes, I should have been more precise. In my experience (most recently Red
Hat WS3), ALT-Fx works from a regular console. CTRL-ALT-Fx works from both a
regular console and from X.

In any case, I have a problem now with etch. Neither ALT-Fx nor CTRL-ALT-Fx
gives a virtual terminal under any circumstance I've tried, including:

During installation
After booting to a regular console
From the X window I get after calling xinit
From the gnome desktop


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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:36PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote:
> > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing-
> > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6
> > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens.
>
> On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin Ross wrote:
>
> > CTRL-ALT-Fx is for switching virtual consoles while X is running. Use just
> > ALT-Fx while at a regular console.
>
> Yes, I should have been more precise. In my experience (most recently Red
> Hat WS3), ALT-Fx works from a regular console. CTRL-ALT-Fx works from both a
> regular console and from X.
>
> In any case, I have a problem now with etch. Neither ALT-Fx nor CTRL-ALT-Fx
> gives a virtual terminal under any circumstance I've tried, including:
>
> During installation
> After booting to a regular console
> From the X window I get after calling xinit
> From the gnome desktop
>

Init runs getty on the VTs. Are they running?

ps -C getty

from within whatever terminal you do have will tell you this. If
there's no getty, then there's nothing to switch to (e.g. on a regular
system, ALT-F9 does nothing).

Just a thought.

Doug.


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