Emacs menus

I have a pretty hard time reaching the menus in emacs on the console. I have seen suggestions á la F10 and M-` but none of these work. Right now, F10 calls up Eval. I could live without that shortcut, so how do I set F10 to bring out the menus? I use the emacs that comes with SuSE Linux 7.3 (20.7.1). Thanks in advance. Best regards, David List