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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! y = x ^ LOG_B (x, y)
