Re: Missing tty2-6

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 def

Re: Missing tty2-6

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 Win9

Re: Missing tty2-6

Tim Wood wrote: > 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. Are you by any chance using linux 2.4.0 and mingetty? -- see shy jo

Missing tty2-6

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 s