Back again

Charles Hallenbeck chuckh at hhs48.com
Wed May 18 09:45:51 EDT 2005


Welcome back, Dan.

Use only the left alt key, not the right one, and you should be able to 
change consoles okay.

Chuck


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hi all.
> Finally after a year of not having a machine I could run Linux on I
> finally have one.
> It's a P200, and I installed Slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.4.29 and Speakup
> 2.0.  the machine has only 16 MB of ram and 1.9 GB drive space, but I hope
> to remedy that in the next few weeks.
> I do have a question but I'm not sure if it's Slackware specific or
> something else.  Before I could use alt f1 through alt f6 to select up to
> 6 consoles simultaneously.  this seems to have gone away.  Is it because
> of low memory or has there been some significant change with the bash
> shell or what?
> I can see in the boot process that it is going multi-user, so init is
> running at level 3, and everything else seems to run ok.
> I like some of the changes in Speakup too.
> the machine isn't on the net, that's a few weeks away too, until I can get
> a network card.
> I need to get back into the swing of this, but I've forgotten a few
> things, so could somebody update me on any major changes over the past
> year or so?
> thanks.
>
>
> Dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net
> Web: http://greenwoodbbs.dyndns.org:8085
>
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