Re: Unable to switch VT from X4
Nelson Abramson wrote:
> I just finished switching to Debian (finally) on my G4, and got the
> Phase2 .debs from people.debian.org/~branden and they are working
> excellently; except for one issue; I can't switch VTs from w/in X.
> From tty1-6 everything is fine; once I get into X, everything goes
> to hell. I spent an hour remapping the keys that seemed to get mangled
> (rather than spend the time to figure out what keymap would be
> appropriate, I just disabled Xkb and did it manually). I thought that
> perhaps I mangled one of the modifiers so that the keycode wasn't what
> I thought it was; but everything is fine.
Are you using the new input layer?
> I checked the XF86Config, and all of the options to ignore keycombos
> are still commented out...unless I forgot to include one (although
> everything should be fine since this is an old copy of my perviously
> working XF86Config).
Such an option has only very recently been added to the X CVS AFAIK so it can'
t be in the debs.
> The apple key and alt are both mapped to alt, control is control and
> the function keys are mapped correctly (I'm using that terrible mini-usb
> keyboard). I'm out of ideas. I also can't force kill the Xserver with
> the ctrl+alt+delete, which would atleast let me work a little bit....
It should actually be ctrl-alt-backspace, tried that (if there is some kind of
backspace :)?
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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