[Dxspider-support] Console on TTY-7

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:41:42PM -0800, Bill & Chris Shell wrote:
> Hi Dirk, et al,
> 
> I have made a new DX-Spider machine and decided to use KDE on this one.
> Everything is working with the load, except I don't have the console
> visible.  The console is there, of course, when I init level 3, but in level
> 5 I'm not sure there is a way of seeing it.  Is there a way of viewing the
> console when you use a graphical desktop?
> 
> 73, Bill
> N6WS
> n6ws at charter.net

Since the KDE desktop grabs tty7, direct DXSpider to tty8 in
/etc/inittab.  Of course you'll have to use Ctrl-Alt-F8 to see it. 
Alternately, you could direct the output to a file and view it in a
text console on the KDE desktop with 'tail -f'.

73, Bob N7XY