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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (71% of Full) There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who count in binary, and those who do not. You can download some things from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
