On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:12:42AM -0400, J. Michael McGarrah wrote:
>
> I'm unable to get to the text mode terminals once I start X11 on my
> system. I'm running the most current unstable debian for sparc on an
> Ultra 60.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm not doing anything terrible unusual on my system and have seen the
> same on another sparc system setup as well. Is this just something that
> doesn't work on debian sparc machines? I remember this working on Red Hat
> 6.2 systems.
>
> Appreciate any help.
The Debian X Strike Force expects this problem to be solved in the next
XFree86 package release.
Changes by Denis Barbier:
* Make Sun keyboards load srvr_ctrl(xfree86) symbol definitions to have
access to standard Ctrl+Alt key sequences. (Closes: #236086)
Also see:
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/changelog
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml
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