Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Wed November 21 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >     Option         "XkbVariant" "us"
> > EndSection
> 
> Try to change your xorg.conf to:
>
> Option         "XkbVariant" ""

BINGO ! that did it!

>
> and restart X. (You can also comment out that line completely.)
>
> You can also try to run
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1"
>
> while X is running and check if this restores CTRL-ALT-F1 switching to
> tty1.

that didn't work... but after changing that lin in xorg.conf CTRL-ALT-F1 works 
again, as does CTRL-ALT-F7/8..
so, even though I have a "us" keyboard, those keys don't work with it in the 
file..

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Paul Cartwright
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