On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > from the xserver screen. Good so far. Then I tried to switch to the F1 > screen which I use frequently along with all those console based screens > & it would not switch to the console. Make sure your keyboard is still configured correctly. You might have created a new xorg.conf, removing any keyboard settings you might have had there.