Virtual terminals?

[krishna.murphy]

There is another config file responsible for the virtual consoles /etc/inittab

The lines that begin with 1:12345, 2:12345, etc represent the virtual consoles. I commented out 3 and 4 and I am not sure which of the 2 config files is making the difference, but you can try both and see for yourself

Well, I don't see any problems, but I'll show what seems relevant. These should be the vanilla default setup choices - I never set them.

inittab:
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
#
# Format:
#  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
#
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
#

# 1:12345:respawn:/bin/bash -login < /dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
1:12345:respawn:bash -login </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
2:12345:respawn:bash -login </dev/tty2 >/dev/tty2 2>&1
3:12345:respawn:bash -login </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>&1
4:12345:respawn:bash -login </dev/tty4 >/dev/tty4 2>&1

# X mode
x0:5:wait:sleep 2
x1:5:respawn:/etc/init.d/knoppix-startx start

console-setup:
# Setup these consoles.  Most people do not need to change this.
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-4]"

Cheers anyway!
Krishna

[mecho]

Nobody really uses virtual consoles, but it does not mean it should not work .
You can try sudo chvt 1 and see what error comes up, then google it for more info. Sorry I could not help more

[krishna.murphy]

Nobody really uses virtual consoles, but it does not mean it should not work .
You can try sudo chvt 1 and see what error comes up, then google it for more info. Sorry I could not help more

I think you're right about it being relatively unimportant; it just kinda bugged me. chvt works nicely, and when in virtual terminal 1 or 2 (text mode), ctrl-alt-F5 works. However, it takes me back to the GUI, where ctrl-alt-F2 (in the LXterm app) produces ;7Q and no "action." Just curious...


Thanks!
Krishna

[mecho]

May be it's time to close this thread, but it still bugs me .
I think you have an issue with you keyboard mappings. There is one way to find out.
Run xev - in terminal and then press and hold the F1 key and see if it registers properly in xev, do the same with CTRL and ALT. I bet you might have to switch to other xkbModel or xkbLayout setting. Also if this is the reason you might find out some other key combination not functioning properly