Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Path: utzoo!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Switching VTs on R4
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 03:20:01 GMT
Message-ID: <286D4DE2.63A7@telly.on.ca>
References: <935@mecky.UUCP>

In article <935@mecky.UUCP> walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky) writes:
>Switching VTs on SCO is rather easy: ALT F-Key. To do this so easy with
>ISC, you have to use a little program posted here from time to time.

>But I want to use the VTs with R4 (from Intel) too. According to the
>manual I should use ALT SYSREQ F-Key. But this does not work. I know
>from the News to use the command vtlmgr. But first I cannot find any
>documenation for this command and don't always want its behaviour of
>starting a shell on the VT (I sometimes want to do login).

On ESIX R4, the virtual terminals work, but aren't enabled immediately. 
You have to go into /etc/inittab and change the vt entries from "off" to
"respawn". But the entries are there, and came up immediately.

One oddity that I wasn't used to was the use of <ALT>-h to get the
console. <ALT>-<F1> gave me the first virtual terminal.

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