console on FC4

[Jim Cornette]

Deboo ^ wrote:
> The Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] don't work for any video card. I have installed FC4 
> on more than a hundred machines with differenct configs. Alt-F2 is 
> available during installation tho. WIth FC3, it works fine on the same 
> hardware so it's not hardwarerelated.
>  
> Regards,
> Deboo
> 

Do you have the mingetty service running? This appears to be started by 
var/run/utmp
The file is not human readable but does output the below.

tty11LOGIN�D�#
tty22LOGIN�D(
tty33LOGIN�D�,
tty44LOGIN�D�1
tty55LOGIN�D�5
tty66LOGIN�D,:

  locate mingetty
/sbin/mingetty
/usr/share/doc/mingetty-1.07
/usr/share/doc/mingetty-1.07/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mingetty.8.gz

rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/mingetty
mingetty-1.07-5.2.1


ps -A |grep tty
2103 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
2104 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
2105 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
2106 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
2107 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
2108 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
2205 tty7 00:08:25 Xorg


Jim

>     Deboo ^ wrote:
>      > How to enable console ttys in FC4? ANd why are the console ttys
>      > disabled? There seems to be no file under /etc for this.
>      >
>      > Regards
>      > Deboo
>      >
>      > --
>
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