On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Michael Zwarg wrote:
> I recently installed the Stampeded distribution of Linux w/ kernel
> 2.2.1-1.
> As my friend helped when I was installing, agetty worked well
allowing
> him to switch to separate login sessions. Now, after the install is
> complete, I cannot switch between any login prompts using Alt-F1
through
> Alt-F6. If I run 'ps aux', I can see that I have 5 other 'agetty's
> running, but I can't switch to them. I know my keyboard is working,
Can you switch consoles with chvt <console number>? How about
echo -e "\033[12;<console number>]"? If you can, either your keyboard
is broken, or some kind person has mapped your keyboard so that escape
and/or the function keys lead to the wrong keycodes. You can use
dumpkeys [|less] to see how they are mappeed. man dumpkeys will give
you a terse description of it, and pointers to other related doco.
> Also, I have a few other questions. I understand that there is a
> plethora of info installed on my computer in the form of documentation.
> But where exactly is it held? in man pages? in how-tos? in
individual
> READMEs? What directories can I seek out? What if I know a command in
> DOS
> and want to find a similar one in Linux? Are there some websites that
> people rely on to locate info regarding part of Linux that they don't
> know
> the answer to?
>
I rely primarily on the man pages. The command apropos <subject> is a
sort of local search engine for them. They are rather dense, and the
more you know, the more useful they are, but they're still worth reading
the first time when they don't seem to make any sense. If you have info
properly installed, just info by itself will give you a menu to a vast
cross-referenced mass of useful doco. if not, try ls /usr/info and see
if any of the file names looks interesting. You can still read the
individual files with info -f even if the info/dir isn't right.
Every distro I'm familiar with (which lets out Stampeded) has /usr/doc
or /usr/docs, from there the structure varies even more, but somewhere
will be faq (or maybe FAQ or FAQS or faqs) and howto. find is useful if
you have an idea of a filename, but no idea where it is. See man find
for how to use it. I'd be lost without it. If man find is too dense,
try info find. If you have a CD of the distro, it will probably have a
directory doc or docs with a good set of faq's and howto's.
Lawson
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> Thanks for any help you direct my way. > > Michael Zwarg
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