Re: No Consoles???
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:00 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 10:48 AM, John W Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote:
> >>>> Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue
> >>>> with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using
> >>>> testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my
> >>>> system. Something has disabled thosr consoles. Any tips to correct are
> >>>> appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> What do you get if you run 'chvt 1' as root?
> >>>
> >>
> >> /etc/inittab looks good, what about the contents of /etc/default/console-setup?
> > ---------------------------
> > There is no file by that name.
>
> Do
> dpkg -l console-setup
> if you don't have it installed, install it.
>
> HTH
> Wayne
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Hi Wayne! Long time... As usual your advice was spot on. Aparantly in
the AMD64 distro the Debian installer does not set up the consoles as a
"requirement" I will try this solution on Ubuntu also. Again Thanks.
John Foster
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