text console availability

[Yan Seiner]

Jim Ham wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Well, I just poked around and there is no xorg.conf. I may have opened by 
> mouth before engaging my brain - I'm not even sure if this distribution is 
> before or after Arcom switched to Xorg. In any case the server is a subset 
> and does not have a -version switch. This is a Xscale embedded system, it 
> makes sense that they compiled for the Arm processor with the TinyX options.
> 
> Logging is apparently not turned on. "find / -name "*log*" |grep -i x" 
> returns nothing interesting.

If it's an embedded system try logread or logread -f.