On Sunday 19 May 2002 13:36, Mark Wagnon wrote:
Hi all,
I have a brand new install of 8.0 and have a question about switching to virtual consoles. Actually, I don't have a need for them, but I switch to one to "fix" my mouse. Let me go back a little farther and describe my situation...
I have a KVM switch and whenever I switch between Linux and that other OS and back, my mouse starts acting strange. The scroll wheel won't let me scroll up and occasionally the movement becomes erratic. I discovered that if I drop to a tty briefly and switch back to my X session that the mouse behavior would be restored.
I'm returning to SuSE after a long break and I see that when I switch a the console that it's not the old white on black text screen, but rather a nifty greenish screen sitting on a fancy graphical background. Well, whenever I switch, my system locks up and I have to down it by turning off the power.
How might I get the old fashioned console back?
TIA!
You might just try Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of F1, since I don't think the cool graphics get loaded by default onto any other tty except tty1. To disable it completely, look at /usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/cstein_nosplash.html. If you don't have it | can't find it | whatever, you can always e-mail off the list, and I will gzip it up and send it to you. Try switching to a different console, though, 'cause I don't think that the graphics are causing your problem. Kevin