[yocto] Virtual consoles not working

[Chris Tapp]

On 26 Aug 2012, at 21:02, Chris Tapp wrote:

>> 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.


Got it - I needed to enable CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE in the kernel.

Chris Tapp

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