On 11/13/2014 11:50 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > In a distribution I used long ago (Slackware 96 ? Mandrake 6.0 ?) Ctrl-Alt-F12 would take you to a screen displaying in real time the kernel messages. > > Is that possible in Debian ? Yes. With syslog-ng, you can use "destination d_console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };" and set up a proper log path. Cheers, Simon