On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:07:04AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried > using ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing > happened. Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so, do you have "XkbLayout" defined in it? If so, what to? I ask because an invalid XkbLayout can apparently be one cause: <http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/sarge/vtswitch.html> What video driver do you have defined? Does the problem remain if you change to vesa or vga as a test? Several threads elsewhere seem to indicate this could be driver related: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-March/069603.html> <http://osdir.com/ml/freedesktop.xorg.drivers.radeonhd/2008-04/msg00023.html> Finally, if you start a failsafe terminal session rather than a desktop environment such as GNOME, does the problem still occur? (this would help implicate some kind of keyboard-setting applied by gnome-settings-daemon or similar) > 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. X upgrades don't typically restart running servers, but you could try using screen(1) as the parent of your root prompt. Also, chvt(1) should still work. -- Jon Dowland
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