[yocto] Virtual consoles not working

[Chris Tapp]

> How do I get virtual consoles working? I think I may have missed a step along the way:
> 
> 1) I've got entries in /etc/inittab of the form:
>   1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>   2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> 2) I'm at runlevel 5
> 3) 'ps' shows that getty is running on tty1
> 
> However, <Alt><right-arrow>, <Alt><F2> and <Ctrl><Alt> variants don't switch to another console. In fact, I only get the final state of the psplash screen.
> 
> Serial console is working as expected and the caps-lock light on the keyboard is changing state.
> 
> Kernel is linux-yocto 3.4 for a custom BSP.


That should have been linux-yocto 3.2.

Chris Tapp

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