Switching VTs on R4
Evan Leibovitch
evan at telly.on.ca
Sun Jun 30 13:20:01 AEST 1991
In article <935 at mecky.UUCP> walter at mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky) writes:
>Switching VTs on SCO is rather easy: ALT F-Key. To do this so easy with
>ISC, you have to use a little program posted here from time to time.
>But I want to use the VTs with R4 (from Intel) too. According to the
>manual I should use ALT SYSREQ F-Key. But this does not work. I know
>from the News to use the command vtlmgr. But first I cannot find any
>documenation for this command and don't always want its behaviour of
>starting a shell on the VT (I sometimes want to do login).
On ESIX R4, the virtual terminals work, but aren't enabled immediately.
You have to go into /etc/inittab and change the vt entries from "off" to
"respawn". But the entries are there, and came up immediately.
One oddity that I wasn't used to was the use of <ALT>-h to get the
console. <ALT>-<F1> gave me the first virtual terminal.
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Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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