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From: "Kristoffer Gustafsson" <kg84@dreamwld.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:55:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c8d0cd$49c43e50$0900a8c0@evelina> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171832020.3292@gube.gnpgvphfpbzzhavpngvbaf.arg>

How many consoles can you have at the same time?
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luke" <speakup@lists.tacticus.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?


> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Gaijin wrote:
>
>> Just did a tasksel install of the X11 desktop environment in
>> Debian Lenny, and everything was working fine until I rebooted.  I was
>> left with the usually silent gdm screen, so had no idea what was 
>> happening,
>> and now I have  access to only one text console now.  Those F-wits at
>> Debian have really F'ed up my computer.  Any Debian gurus out there know
>> how to make Debian respawn the normal number of text consoles, so I
>> don't have to do a full reinstall from Etch, a'la the Mickeysoft method?
>> I can't even consult a man page at the same time I'm working on
>> something any more.
>
> Why: does control-z no longer work to suspend?
>
> How about the screen program to have virtual virtual consoles?
>
> As for a solution: edit your /etc/inittab file, and add more consoles.  At
> least, that's how it is done if you're not in an X environment.
>
> Luke
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gaijin
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Gaijin
     ` Re[2]: " Farhan
       ` Keyboards - oh, the clickyness (was:Re: Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?) luke
         ` Farhan
           ` Alex Snow
             ` Keyboards - oh, the clickyness (was:Re: Anyone know what is happening in DebianLenny?) Nick Stockton
               ` luke
             ` Nick Stockton
               ` Alex Snow
   ` Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny? chomiak7737
 ` luke
   ` Kristoffer Gustafsson [this message]
     ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Gaijin
 luke
 ` Gaijin
   ` luke
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` luke
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` luke
 ` Ralph W. Reid
   ` luke

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