Re: Missing tty2-6

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

Have a look at /etc/inittab. Do you have the lines

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

in it ? And what is your default runlevel? It's in the same file, mine
is:

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

Diego Biurrun

Tim Wood wrote:
> 
> I have Debian 2.2 with Helix-Gnome/icewm running on my desktop (BE6
> P3-450@630 128MB PC133 RAM) but only have tty1 and tty7/X.
> 
> On my laptop tty1-6 (P2-233 64MB RAM)  show as processes but on my
> desktop only tty1 and I cannot switch to any other.  My family is used
> to Win9x so I use xdm to start in X.
> 
> Any pointers as to how to fix this would be welcome.
> 
> TIA,
>         Tim Wood