Message: 9 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:12:01 -0400 From: Jim Dever <jdever@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Switching virtual terminals To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4849EE71.7010303@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 05:11 -0400, Jim Dever wrote: >> I just tried it again to make sure. From an X session CTRL+ALT+Fn >> works but from a text console Alt-Fn does nothing. It's remains at >> the same tty I was at when I issued the CTRL+ALT+Fn from X. Any >> ideas? > > I am back on Fedora 9, now, and both ALT+Fn and CTRL+ALT+Fn are working > for me, so the problem is probably specific to your setup. You might > want to say if your installation was fresh, or updating a prior release. > >It's definitely a straight plain vanilla installation. >I didn't >download any of the development groups. Just stopped >at the default. >The only thing I've changed is to put it on a static >IP address. I >haven't even had my hands in the nuts and bolts. I've >had the same >problem with F8 and F7 with a straight install. >Weird. You might check that you have a getty on the device. run "ps -A | less" and look for something like 1991 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty 1992 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty 1993 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty 1994 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty 1995 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty This is from my machine that works as advertised. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
