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[Ralph W. Reid]

Which <ALT> key are you using?  If you use the left <ALT> key along
with a function key, you will be trying to get to virtual terminals
1-12.  If you use the right <ALT> key, you will be trying to get to
virtual terinals 13-24.  If you do not have the terminal described in
/etc/inittab, you will not be able to get to it, and the keys you
press might appear to be nonfunctional.  You can add terminals to
/etc/inittab by looking for a line like the following in the file:

c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

and then appending lines like the following below the above line:

c7:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux
c8:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux
c9:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux
c10:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty10 linux
.
.
.
c24:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty24 linux

More terminals can be defined, but are a little trickier to get to
than simply pressing <ALT>-F??.  Once the changes to /etc/inittab have
been made and saved, the changes can be brought into effect by
executing the following as root:

telinit Q

For more details, see the man pages for the following: telinit,
inittab, and agetty.

HTH, and have a _great_ day!

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:15:49AM -0400, 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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