[SOLVED] Controlling availability of FN1-FN6 consoles, error and status messages
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Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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Controlling availability of FN1-FN6 consoles, error and status messages
This is on openSUSE.
I recently noticed that the <Ctrl><Alt> FN2-FN6 consoles are not anymore available after boot. Same for the error and status messages on <Ctrl><Alt> FN10 (besides the boot Messages on <Ctrl><Alt> FN1).
Does anybody know whether those are controlled by a config file or some such? An activation as early as possible during boot would be my preferred aim. And how could I activate the function keys "by hand" after booting?
^ so that means it doesn't output anything to console.
what _exactly_ is happening? does it simply stay on the tty running Xorg, or does the screen go black or something?
the latter would suggest a graphical issue. let's see: https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch...h+tty+consoles
the fedora ask looks relevant.
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Well, I'll be ... something.
I used your links for inspiration and did from memory
Code:
me@PC:~> ps ax | grep tty
1833 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear tty1 linux
1872 tty7 Ssl+ 0:06 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{c8be8a29-99d5-49f6-8156-1ac2f207579e} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7
4131 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear tty2 linux
5994 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto tty
me@PC:~> sudo service tty3 restart
[sudo] Passwort für root:
service: no such service tty3
As expected, tty1 + tty2 had a login prompt and tty7 the graphic-screen. The rest of the screens <CTRL><ALt><Fn> were simply empty and black with only the cursor blinking.
Then I dug some more in your links and after 5 minutes without any other commands in console I ran again:
Still the one big question remains: how does this work? How can I do it if necessary all by myself (on console)? Is there a configuration available? Can this be enabled for emergency mode? Any ideas would be appreciated very much .
so it just takes a while for them to load? is that it?
as previously, it often helps to search the error message.
how about linux failed to set up virtual console? or replace linux with opensuse, or systemd etc.
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Originally Posted by JZL240I-U
how does this work? How can I do it if necessary all by myself (on console)? Is there a configuration available? Can this be enabled for emergency mode?
as already hinted, systemd seems to take care of these things on most modern distributions.
i will refer you to the archwiki and
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Sorry to be back only now.
And: Thanks for the links .
Sometimes one (or at least I) is sort of blocked. Neither sensible questions nor obvious actions come to mind. You pointed me in the right direction and my initial disorientation and the correlated problems are (re)solved and the underlying technical steps are clear. Ahmm, thank you . Marking this thread as solved.
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