Re: Changing to tty2 on an iBook
On 2011-08-13 02:12, Maurice Janssen wrote: On 08/13/2011 06:58 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On most PCs I've handled, I change across consoles using alt+ctrl+f2, alt+ctrl+f3, etc. I've now installed OpenBSD on an iBook G4, which doesn't quite have f1-f12 keys. It has a brightness-up key, and if I press fn+brightness_up, it works like an f2 key. HOWEVER, if I press ctrl+alt+fn+brightness_up, this will not switch me over to tty2 for some reason. Is there any workaround for this? How have users of similar notebooks handled this? Run tmux or X. Multiple virtual consoles are only supported on i386, amd64, zaurus and some alpha (according to FAQ 7.4). Maurice Thanks, I failed to see that when I went looking around the first time. I didn't know some architectures didn't support serveral virtual consoles - I actually related the issue to the wierd keyboard :P I've been using tmux for now, and will keep on doing that, thanks :) -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
Changing to tty2 on an iBook
On most PCs I've handled, I change across consoles using alt+ctrl+f2, alt+ctrl+f3, etc. I've now installed OpenBSD on an iBook G4, which doesn't quite have f1-f12 keys. It has a brightness-up key, and if I press fn+brightness_up, it works like an f2 key. HOWEVER, if I press ctrl+alt+fn+brightness_up, this will not switch me over to tty2 for some reason. Is there any workaround for this? How have users of similar notebooks handled this? Thanks, cheers! -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
Re: Changing to tty2 on an iBook
On 08/13/2011 06:58 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On most PCs I've handled, I change across consoles using alt+ctrl+f2, alt+ctrl+f3, etc. I've now installed OpenBSD on an iBook G4, which doesn't quite have f1-f12 keys. It has a brightness-up key, and if I press fn+brightness_up, it works like an f2 key. HOWEVER, if I press ctrl+alt+fn+brightness_up, this will not switch me over to tty2 for some reason. Is there any workaround for this? How have users of similar notebooks handled this? Run tmux or X. Multiple virtual consoles are only supported on i386, amd64, zaurus and some alpha (according to FAQ 7.4). Maurice
