"J. Michael McGarrah" <mcgarrah@mcgarware.com> writes: > Alt-F1 / Ctrl-Alt-F1 do not break out of X to a text console mode. If > I don't start X then I can use the virtual consoles. Does it switch if you use 'chvt 1' (as root) instead? -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `-