Virtual Console switching:

[Rafi Gordon]

Hi,
  On my fedora core 3 , running alt/ctrl/f2 changes to virtual console
    number 2.(According to /etc/inittab, there are 6 virtual consoles).
    
    My question is : how is it done ? what is the chain of actions (or
    maybe single action) which alt/ctrl/f2 initiates ?
    
    On the FC3 keyboard shortcuts dialog window, the combination alt/ctrl/fn (n < 6)
    does not appear at all.
    
    (It of course has to do to mingetty , which is what appears in
    the /etc/inittab:
    2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2.
    
    But again, my question is : what exactly is the action
    which it triggers in order to switch to the virtual console?)
    
    Regards,
    RG