Virtual console switching

[troy]

That's freaky, especially right after you just switched...

Until you get it figured out you could use 'chvt N' where N is the terminal
number.
 
Hmm, some useful tools:   
dumpkeys
showkey

What's in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ?
Also see /etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable 

This is assuming RedHat, i assume other distro's are similiar.

-t



On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:04:27AM -0700, Jeff Miller wrote:
> 
> Alt-F1 - Alt-F6 suddenly stopped working for me for
> switching virtual consoles.  Right after a successful
> Alt-F2 console switch, in fact.  
> 
> I tried Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] (like switching VCs from X), and
> they work.  (But Ctrl-F[1-6] doesn't do anything, so Alt
> is not just broken).
> 
> I rebooted and the problem persisted.
> 
> Anyone seen behavior like this?  Any thoughts?  Is my 
> keyboard flaking out?
> 
> Jeff Miller
> <jmiller at batnet.com>
> [finally moved from SF to Cotati -- yay!]