Re: Problems with X 4.3.0
On 11 Apr 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:47:29AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > > for example), no text is displayed. It looks as if the monitor is not
> > > switched back to text mode or is in an invalid frequency range, because I
> > > see some lines moving everywhere on the screen but no text. However, I can
> > > type commands and they are executed (I know because, for example, I can
> > > "shutdown -r now") but I have no idea why I can't see the text... And I can
> > > switch back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 just fine.
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I brought this one up here a few weeks ago, and someone pointed out that
> > the problem seems to be related to xmodmap. I'm not sure if it is all
> > .xmodmap files or just the one I have, but in my case either I do
> > without xmodmap, or I can't switch to text terminals (and can't exit X
> > with Crtl-Alt-Del). If you look back in the archive a few weeks ago you
> > will see the thread.
> >
> > Anthony
>
> Same here, I had the same problem, culdn switch back to console, the
> problem lasted for quite a while because I thought it was due to
> dropping the ati binary driver. Until one day that my wife complained
> about having to read her email in mutt, and I opned an account for
> her, with mozilla mail. Then I noticed that from her account I could
> switch back to console. The only difference seemed to be an xmodmap
> that I loaded at login ... It got me to experiment with xmodmap. I can
> tell you the following: Now I load xmodmap, but one that uses no key
> modification, the only keys that I miss are questiondown (?),
> exclamdown (?) and gillemots (?,?). But the trade so far is fine: I
> can get back to console, which is very important for me.
>
>
>
I have to admit to relying on xkeycaps to do what I want (mainly convert
Caps Lock to Escape and make both Alt keys work the same). I've tried
modifying the resultant xmodmap file but without much success.
Fortunately I don't need to get back to the console very often
nowadays.
AC
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