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Re: virtual text consoles gone



On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik AT topoi DOT pooq DOT com wrote:
> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text 
> console a month or two ago.  Now I haven't been doing anything much to 
> it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new 
> Debian package.  Anyone have any ideas where to start looking?
> 
> hendrik@april:~$ uname -a
> Linux april 2.6.18-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:04:37 CET 2006 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux

The two most likely causes for this problem are:

1) a misconfiguration of your keyboard, i.e. the XF86_Switch_VT_*
   symbols are not generated when you press CTRL-ALT-Fn

2) a problem with your video driver which blocks the necessary video mode
   switch

To test for 1), run "xev" in an X terminal and press CTRL, ALT, and F1
separately. Post the output that you get (the KeyPress events). Also
check which event (if any) is registered when you hold down both CTRL
and ALT, and then press F1.

To test for 2), run "tail -n0 -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log" in an X terminal;
this will print all new entries in the Xorg log until you press CTRL-C.
Then open another terminal, become root and run "chvt 1". This should
switch to tty1. Does this work? Which new log messages are reported by
the "tail" command? 

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