From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 03:57:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA17575 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA17548 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:57:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from potok@friko.onet.pl) Received: from friko.onet.pl (friko.onet.pl [194.204.188.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA22210 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from psycho.free.box (rap-cen160.opole.tpnet.pl [194.204.146.160]) by friko.onet.pl (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA31173; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:35:32 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971110025837.007bfbf0@popd.ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:52:06 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ovita Nutricia Poland From: Mariusz Potocki To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Subject: RE: virtual terminal doesn't recognize Alt-F2 Cc: questions@freebsd.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 10-Nov-97 shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: >I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 with no problems except that after I boot up >I can only access one virtual terminal. If I press Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, the >control character arn't "caught" by the OS and get passed to the shell >which just spits back a message saying command not found. >I don't have this problem with my other FreeBSD machine with the same >version of the OS. I don't think its a keyboard problem because I also >have Win95 on the same machine and Alt keys seem to work fine. >Any ideas what the problem could be? Sometime help if you include in kernel: options ASYNCH Mariusz "verba volant, scripta manent"