Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:11:02AM +0000, Frank McCormick wrote:
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> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 +0000
> Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
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> > > I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my
> > > graphical console. The basic symptom is that I am in the
> > > graphical console, I switch to a text console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, do
> > > some stuff in the text console, then when I attempt to switch
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> > Have you checked Alt+F8, Alt+F9, possibly even beyond? On one of my
> > systems, for reasons that are still unclear to me, GDM occasionally
> > runs somewhere between tty8-10 after I've logged in and out a few
> > times. I can only guess it's restarting before it's fully stopped.
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> Same thing here - running Debian testing...and after switching
> back and forth a few times GDM ends up on tty8 instead of 7.
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> Frank
I have this kind of behaviour since 2.6.30-2, so maybe its not kernel
related. My system has nvidia drivers installed the Debian way, using nv or
nvidia makes no difference, one day by Chance I tried tty8 where X was,
witch is odd.
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José Santos | Debian Squeeze/Sid mixed system
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