On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:08:23PM +0100, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > When I switch from one tty to another with Alt + left/right > arrow, it cycles through tty7 to tty12 (which are empty) instead
Looks like something or someone has activated those ttys. Review you /etc/inittab, and/or /etc/init.d scripts. lsof(1) might be of some help, too. > of going from tty6 directly to tty1, which would be more useful. > Oddly enough, when I start X11 and exit, then it skips the > empty tty's. Does anybody know how to do this by default? Strange. I used to use cron(8) + deallocvt(1) to get rid of blank consoles once. HTH -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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