On 26 Aug 2012, at 21:02, Chris Tapp wrote: >> How do I get virtual consoles working? I think I may have missed a step >> along the way: >> >> 1) I've got entries in /etc/inittab of the form: >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 >> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 >> 2) I'm at runlevel 5 >> 3) 'ps' shows that getty is running on tty1 >> >> However, <Alt><right-arrow>, <Alt><F2> and <Ctrl><Alt> variants don't switch >> to another console. In fact, I only get the final state of the psplash >> screen. >> >> Serial console is working as expected and the caps-lock light on the >> keyboard is changing state. >> >> Kernel is linux-yocto 3.4 for a custom BSP. > > That should have been linux-yocto 3.2.
Got it - I needed to enable CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE in the kernel. Chris Tapp [email protected] www.keylevel.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
