alt+ctrl+f1 and other consoles not working??

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:14 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote:
>   
> hi everyone
> 
> I am using FC4
> 
> when I press ctrl+alt+f1 to ctrl+alt+f6 to get into other consoles the
> screen goes black???
> on pressing ctrl+alt+f7 brings the GUI back.
> 
> how to get to the other consoles???

Try "CTRL-ALT-F12", followed by simply "ALT-F1".  The "CTRL-ALT-F1"
should get you a console, but on some systems it doesn't.  The
"CTRL-ALT-F12" kicks you to a blank screen from which the normal
"ALT-Fx" should work.

"ALT-F7" will take you back to GUI, since if you watch the startup of X
carefully, you'll see that it attaches to the first available tty it
can.  See my comment below.

> 
> below is the output of my /etc/inittab file!!!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #
> # inittab      This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> #              the system in a certain run-level.
> #
> # Author:      Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels at drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
> #              Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
> #
> 
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #  0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #  1 - Single user mode
> #  2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
> networking)
> #  3 - Full multiuser mode
> #  4 - unused
> #  5 - X11
> #  6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> # System initialization.
> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> 
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
> 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
> 
> # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
> # of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
> # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
> # UPS connected and working correctly.
> pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting
> Down"
> 
> # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
> pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown
> Cancelled"
> 
> 
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> 
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

If you notice in the "Run gettys in standard runlevels" section above,
you use tty1 through tty6, so the first unused one is 7 and that's what
X attaches to.

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