Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:22:34PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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?
Aye, there’s there’s the rub .. :-)
Maybe.. _maybe_ you could set up a minimal xorg.conf and have it switch
that flag off..?
I’m still on “lenny” so I probably cannot go beyond (possibly useless)
speculation.
CJ
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