[Dxspider-support] Console on TTY-7

[Bob Nielsen]

I haven't used Mandrake, but normally there are six consoles defined. 
The next one is where the graphics screen resides, so you would use
Alt-F7 (or Ctrl-Alt-F7) to the KDE desktop. F1 through F6 are for the
tty1 through tty6 text consoles.

73, Bob

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:43:11PM -0800, Bill & Chris Shell wrote:
> Bob,
> Thanks, that worked.  How do you go back to KDE after going to Ctrl-Alt-f8?
> I'm using Mandrake v9.0, and tty7 isn't being used.  I just didn't know how
> to get to it.
> 73,Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org
> [mailto:dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org]On Behalf Of Bob Nielsen
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 5:44 PM
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Console on TTY-7
> 
> 
> 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
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