On 2017-03-20, Styma, Robert (Nokia - US) <robert.styma at nokia.com> wrote: > I am also using CentOS, but to get a bug fixed, you have to go upstream to RedHat. I think John Pierce is right, I had to change my run level to get the alternate consoles to work. I still have the machine at run level 3 hoping that a bug fix lets me go back to run level 5. Other machines work fine, just the 2 with the MACH64 video on the motherboard will no longer run X. In previous versions of CentOS, runlevel 5 put a virtual console on console 7, so ctrl-alt-F7 to switch to that console might work if changing the default runlevel is not feasible. Note that if X is trying to do something and not letting go of the virtual console, then you need ctrl in addition to alt-FN because X will intercept a plain alt-FN. (I usually set my servers to runlevel 3 by default, so I haven't tried this on CentOS in a while. My Ubuntu laptop does put a console on F7 even in runlevel 5.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us