9.4. SuSE

  1. In /etc/init.d/kbd, add this line in the very beginning of the file:

    KBD_TTY="tty0 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7"

    After modifications:

    
#! /bin/sh
    # Copyright (c) 1995-2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
    #
    # Author:   Burchard Steinbild <[email protected]>
    #           Werner Fink <[email protected]>
    #
    # /etc/init.d/kbd
    #
    #   and symbolic its link
    #
    # /sbin/rckbd
    #
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:       kbd
    # Required-Start: $remote_fs
    # Required-Stop:
    # X-SuSE-Should-Start:  fbset serial
    # X-SuSE-Should-Stop:
    # Default-Start:  1 2 3 5 S
    # Default-Stop:
    # Description:    Keyboard settings (don't disable!)
    ### END INIT INFO
    
    . /etc/rc.status
    . /etc/sysconfig/console
    . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
    
    MACHINE=`/bin/uname -m 2> /dev/null`
    if [ "$MACHINE" = "sparc" -o "$MACHINE" = "sparc64" ]; then
       # Test if we have a serial console.
       (test -c /dev/tty1 && > /dev/tty1 ) > /dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
    fi
    
    # The variable NON_SUSE_KERNEL determines whether we need to chvt
    # to a console before some console settings apply.
    # We have no magic to find out about this (at boot time), so we
    # leave it to the user to read this comment and put NON_SUSE_KERNEL="yes"
    # into /etc/sysconfig/console
    
    KBDBASE="/usr/share/kbd"
    
    KBD_TTY="tty0 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7"
    KTABLE=${KEYTABLE%.map*}
    KTABLE=${KTABLE##*/}
    #
    # first search the wanted keytable.
    #
    if [ $MACHINE = ppc -o $MACHINE = ppc64 ]; then
            test -f /proc/cpuinfo || mount -n -t proc proc /proc 2>/dev/null
            while read line; do
    ......
    ......
              
  2. Hardware scans sometimes cause problems.

    Recommended: disable. If you have to install new hardware and want to use this service, boot with standard kernel and start it manually.