Re: Painful upgrade from XFree86 to X.Org

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

<mondalaci@gmail.com> wrote:

>         After upgrading from XFree86 to X.Org bad, bad things
>         happened
>         to me.
>         
>         More specifically:
>         
>         1) I cannot switch to the consoles with Alt-F1 - F8.

Perhaps my post from a while ago:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00644.html

is relevant and might help.

This part sounds like it might be the same problem you're having:

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3. Most serious problem: 

   (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

   The most visible symptom here was that I could no longer use
   Ctl-Alt-Fn to get back to the n-th virtual console from a running X
   session. The solution in this case was to make a link from:

     /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 to  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg

   and also from:

     /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst to  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.1st.
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HTH

Jim