On Monday, 20.03.2006 at 21:35 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I still think that the problem lies somewhere in the configuration of > your X server, since the VT switching works as soon as you leave X by > some other means. > > You are using KDE if I recall correctly; are you also using the > graphical login with kdm? There are some known issue related to kdmrc > when upgrading from KDE 3.3. (see /usr/share/doc/kdm/NEWS.Debian.gz) > > Looking at my own /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, I get the feeling that the > following section right at the beginning might be relevant for your > problem since it mentions the ttys: > > -------------------------8<------------------------- > [General] > ConfigVersion=2.3 > ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 > PidFile=/var/run/kdm.pid > ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3 > ServerVTs=-7 > StaticServers=:0 > ------------------------->8------------------------- I have the same entries here as you. My feeling is that the problem is more fundamental than KDE config, as you also suggested. This is confirmed, because: (a) terminal switching attempts fail when using xdm, gdm and kdm as the login manager. This includes attempts to terminal switch from the login screen itself; (b) after using 'chvt 2' as root from a xterm, I *am* able to use the usual key combo Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to the X session. > Another very basic thing to check would be whether a new user account > can use VT switching or not. That would at least tell you if the problem > is due to a system-wide configuration or your regular user's profile. As I suspectewd, a fresh user gets the same symptoms. Thanks for your continued help Florian. I'm going to stick a link to this discussion on the bug report... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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