Have a look at /etc/inittab. Do you have the lines 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
in it ? And what is your default runlevel? It's in the same file, mine is: # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: Diego Biurrun Tim Wood wrote: > > I have Debian 2.2 with Helix-Gnome/icewm running on my desktop (BE6 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 128MB PC133 RAM) but only have tty1 and tty7/X. > > On my laptop tty1-6 (P2-233 64MB RAM) show as processes but on my > desktop only tty1 and I cannot switch to any other. My family is used > to Win9x so I use xdm to start in X. > > Any pointers as to how to fix this would be welcome. > > TIA, > Tim Wood
