Bug#523649: console-setup: vc switching not working for vt24
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.30
Severity: normal
I prefer to run X on vc24, making AltGr-F12 the hotkey combination
used to switching from console to X. I have tried various configurations
of /etc/default/console-setup to try to regain this functionality without
success. Please advise me how to configure console-setup to allow this
to work.
Perhaps the answer is just to remove console-setup and use the old ways?
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.26-2.1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii xkb-data 1.5-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.9-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: USA
console-setup/unsupported_options: true
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
console-setup/modelcode: thinkpad60
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
console-setup/fontsize: 16
console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/layoutcode: us
console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
debian-installer/console-setup/title:
console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: USA
console-setup/variantcode:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-8]
* console-setup/model: IBM ThinkPad R60/T60/Z60m/Z60t/R61/T61/Z61m/Z61t
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: TerminusBoldVGA
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