walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky) (06/26/91)
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). My questions: - Anybody knows of any manual pages of vtlmgr? - How can I configure the startup behaviour of vtlmgr? -- Walter Mecky [ walter@mecky.uucp or ...uunet!unido!mecky!walter ]
dj@micromuse.co.uk (D.J.Walker-Morgan) (06/26/91)
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). Try ALT-Sysreq (then release them) then press F1 F2 etc or N (Next) P (Previous)... >My questions: >- Anybody knows of any manual pages of vtlmgr? Well, when I had Intel V4, the documentation for vtlmgr was in a couple of pages of loose documentation marked release manual pages.... >- How can I configure the startup behaviour of vtlmgr? Pass... sorry. >-- >Walter Mecky [ walter@mecky.uucp or ...uunet!unido!mecky!walter ] -- ========================================================================= dj@micromuse.co.uk | "I've seen the future, I can't afford it" - ABC | Voice +44-71-352-7774 Fax +44-71-351-7834
evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (06/30/91)
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. -- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504 "MS-DOS 4.0 was a ... learning experience" - Bill Gates, introducing DOS 5