Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

How many consoles can you have at the same time?
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luke" <speakup at lists.tacticus.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?


> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Gaijin wrote:
>
>> Just did a tasksel install of the X11 desktop environment in
>> Debian Lenny, and everything was working fine until I rebooted.  I was
>> left with the usually silent gdm screen, so had no idea what was 
>> happening,
>> and now I have  access to only one text console now.  Those F-wits at
>> Debian have really F'ed up my computer.  Any Debian gurus out there know
>> how to make Debian respawn the normal number of text consoles, so I
>> don't have to do a full reinstall from Etch, a'la the Mickeysoft method?
>> I can't even consult a man page at the same time I'm working on
>> something any more.
>
> Why: does control-z no longer work to suspend?
>
> How about the screen program to have virtual virtual consoles?
>
> As for a solution: edit your /etc/inittab file, and add more consoles.  At
> least, that's how it is done if you're not in an X environment.
>
> Luke
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