Re: Lack of text console?
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- Subject: Re: Lack of text console?
- From: Kamil Jońca <kjonca@o2.pl>
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:47:38 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87350ygf3p.fsf@alfa.kjonca>
- In-reply-to: <GZ761-57Wj-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (David Wright's message of "Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:50:01 +0200")
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David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> On Fri 04 Aug 2023 at 15:36:35 (+0200), Kamil Jońca wrote:
>> Kamil Jońca <kjonca@o2.pl> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>> Ugh. This laptop has keyboard where Fn keys have dual function (quite
>> common nowadays) and under F1 was kind of 'Sleep'. So when I press
>> Ctrl-Alt-F1 it goes to sleep, and with F2/F3 there were no reaction as
>> these keys have no other meaning.
>> When I press Ctrl-"fn switch"-Alt+F1 I got console.
>> Thanks for everyone for ensuring me that consoles are still in Debian
>> and sorry for the noise.
>
> On some laptops, the BIOS can switch between treating the Function
> keys as you reported here, or its opposite. The terminology varies:
> here, Lenovo call it HotKey Mode, and HP call it Action Keys Mode.
I know that.
The thing was, it wasn't my laptop, and (as I always set it to Fn, not
"special" on my machines) I did not think that someone might want to
have it cofigured that way :)
KJ
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