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Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X



On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:29:10PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:

> 
> Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get
> back to a TTY after I invoke startx.


> 
> I thought that maybe the problem was that my window manager
> of choice is stumpwm from CVS (which is great! The only
> problem is occasionally having to explain to people that
> that's not "how Linux looks" but that there are very pretty
> options available if you're into that kind of thing), but I
> have tried installing and starting up another window manager
> (no luck) and starting a plain xterm without a window
> manager (still no luck), so I don't think the WM is to
> blame.

surely not a WM, but an x.org issue.

there were some threads related to this a couple months ago, so you
might review the archives. if that doesn't help, post up your
xorg.conf

A

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