On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> > >
> > > The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
> > > command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
> > > session startx on VC 7, the second on VC 8, the third on VC 9, etc.
> > > So, with what you started, to get to the session you started from VC 1,
> > > use Ctrl-Alt-F8, and for the one from VC 2, use Ctrl-Alt-F9.
> > > (VC 1 is the console you get to with Ctrl-Alt-F1...)
> > >
> >
> > Thank you. Btw, if Ctrl-Alt-F8 responses to startx in Ctrl-Alt-F1 virt.
> > console or
> > Ctrl-Alt-F9 responses to startx in Ctrl-Alt-F2 virt.
> > console etc.
> > ................
> >
> > I wonder, what virt. console Ctrl-Alt-F7 responses to :-))
> >
> >
> Actually, you're off one, I think.... CTRL+ALT+F1 gets you back to
> the initial console which matches up to CTRL+ALT+F7. Thus CTRL+ALT+F2
> goes to CTRL+ALT+F8, etc.
> John
>
>
It depends on how the system is configured, and what run level you boot
to. On a stock system, in run level 5, VC 7 will be used by ?dm, and will
not have a text console that you can switch to and see any error messages,
or server messages.
Mikkel
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