Re: virtual text consoles gone
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.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
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux snoopy 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > I had similar experience sometime ago. Then problem disapeared as I
> > updated system. So if suggestion by others does not work, think about
> > moing to a newer kernel in unstable.
> >
> > (But watch out. One kernel update caused me to loose my network device
> > ue to kernel bug in unstable.)
> >
>
> That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close
> X with ctrl-alt-del.
How about "sudo chvt 1" to go to /dev/tty1
Are you in unstable or testing?
Are you using Macbook? I am using it with pommed package.
Without it, I neeed fn-key to be pressed.
Osamu
Reply to: