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Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?



On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
>> week, and used it to install testing.
>> 
>> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using
>> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
>> 
>> How do I go about getting such a console?  I can get a root command
>> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the
>> best place to be controlling the upgrade from.
> 
> Shot in the dark - they wouldn’t have made the DontVTSwitch Xorg config
> the default..?

That's the kind of thing I was wondering.  How do I go about finding out 
whether this is true, now that xorg configures itself?

-- hendrik

> 
> CJ



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