Re: Console access using F1 etc
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:59:35 -0500, John Foster wrote:
> I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production
> server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are
> different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting
> ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of years ago that I had to edit
> something somewhere to enable this feature. I like to use the console
> for doing many things as root from a command line. I thought it was a
> file in /etc/X11 but do not recall. Anyone know what & where I should
> edit.
You must be the exception and not the norm because I guess most of us can
fall into a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1.
You said you "cannot access" but what's the exact behaviour you are
experiencing? What happens when you click that key combo?
KMS¹ (the default since Squeeze) can be troublesome under some
circunstancies.
¹http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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