Bug 108074 - Alternate consoles aren't appearing
Summary: Alternate consoles aren't appearing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Moyer
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-27 13:56 UTC by Tim Burke
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-05-23 17:07:26 UTC
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Description Tim Burke 2003-10-27 13:56:28 UTC
Description of problem:
I installed the GA version of RHEL WS on my desktop PC and laptop. On the
desktop PC, ctrl-alt-f[123456] doesn't get you to an alternalte terminal console
window.  Nothing at all happens.  Meanwhile on the laptop installed with the
same thing it works fine.

I tried it from both the login prompter as well as when logged in as root. 
Didn't make any difference; nothing happens.

Kernel 2.4.21-4.ELsmp

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2003-10-27 14:03:47 UTC
this is controlled by the /etc/inittab file actually....
can you compare that file on both machines to make sure it's sane ?


Comment 4 Jeff Moyer 2003-10-27 23:44:39 UTC
Your keymap isn't correct.  What did you choose during installation for this?

If you need to get to a vt, you can use this command to get by for now:

xmodmap -e "keycode 196 = XF86_Switch_VT1"

Then, ctl-alt-f1 will switch to vt1, and ctrl+left arrow a couple times will get
you back to X.

What we should do is figure out what keymap is correct for your desktop and
install that.  Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on such subject matter.

Comment 6 Jeff Moyer 2006-02-14 20:16:49 UTC
Tim, can we close this as WORKSFORME?  I haven't seen any other reports of this.

Comment 7 Jeff Moyer 2006-05-23 17:07:26 UTC
I've not seen other reports of this, and RHEL 3 is EOL.  I'm closing this.  Feel
free to reopen if you can reproduce it.


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