Re: vt >= 12

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:10:44PM EDT, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
> cga2000 told:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:32:21PM EDT, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > since a while I can't success vt's greater than 12. My inittab
> > > provides
> > > 13:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty13
> > > ....
> > > 
> > > Usually I switched via <AltGr><F3> to vt15 but doesn't work at all.
> > > 
> > > Any hints?
> > 
> > What happens when you issue "chvt 15" from a shell in one of the
> > accessible vt's ..?
> 
> Changed to vt15. So I guess it seems to be a keymap issue?

Or even a bad keyboard.  

It's been a while since I played with this and I can't look into it now
but you may find some useful tips/tools in the console howto.

  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html 

Thanks

cga