Re: Switch to virtual console in xorg - SOLVED

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 15:40:32 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> After the recent xorg upgrade, with its attendant excitement, I found I
> could no longer switch to a virtual console with ctrl-alt-F1. However, I
> have got it to work again by adding this line to the keyboard section:
> 	 Option		"Xkbdisable"	"true"
> 
> The section now reads as follows:
> 
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"gb"
> 	Option		"XkbVariant"	"gb"
> 	Option		"Xkbdisable"	"true"
> EndSection

It's great that it now works again for you, but I am a bit surprised
that you had to disable Xkb completely to achieve this. I think the
problem might be due to the "keyboard" driver (depreciated AFAIK).
Furthermore, I think "XkbVariant" should be something like "basic" or
"nodeadkeys", but not a layout code like "gb". If you are willing to try
it once more you could start with the basic configuration from
/etc/X11/xkb/README.config, adapted for "gb":

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option "XKbOptions" ""
EndSection

Maybe that will get it working with Xkb enabled. You should also check
if the package "xkb-data" has been installed correctly during the upgrade.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian