Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote:
> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing-
> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6
> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens.
On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin Ross wrote:
> CTRL-ALT-Fx is for switching virtual consoles while X is running. Use just
> ALT-Fx while at a regular console.
Yes, I should have been more precise. In my experience (most recently Red
Hat WS3), ALT-Fx works from a regular console. CTRL-ALT-Fx works from both a
regular console and from X.
In any case, I have a problem now with etch. Neither ALT-Fx nor CTRL-ALT-Fx
gives a virtual terminal under any circumstance I've tried, including:
During installation
After booting to a regular console
From the X window I get after calling xinit
From the gnome desktop
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