On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:00 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 08/10/2010 10:48 AM, John W Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu<andreimpope...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote: > >>>> Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue > >>>> with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using > >>>> testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my > >>>> system. Something has disabled thosr consoles. Any tips to correct are > >>>> appreciated. > >>> > >>> What do you get if you run 'chvt 1' as root? > >>> > >> > >> /etc/inittab looks good, what about the contents of > >> /etc/default/console-setup? > > --------------------------- > > There is no file by that name. > > Do > dpkg -l console-setup > if you don't have it installed, install it. > > HTH > Wayne --------------------------------- Hi Wayne! Long time... As usual your advice was spot on. Aparantly in the AMD64 distro the Debian installer does not set up the consoles as a "requirement" I will try this solution on Ubuntu also. Again Thanks. John Foster
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