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Bug#327282: xserver-xorg: can't switch to virtual console with alt-ctl-f1



On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 21:07 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:36:53AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 00:26 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > xserver-xfree86 allowed one to exit the xserver to a virtual console
> > > using the alt-ctl-f1...f6 combinations.  The new xserver-xorg does not
> > > appear to allow this; this is very important should a window manager
> > > get stuck, for example.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions on how to fix?
> > 
> > It, um, does.  This is usually an indication of XKB problems.
> 
> I don't understand.  I just upgraded my testing distro from
> xserver-xfree86, which allowed me to switch to the virtual consoles,
> to xserver-xorg, which doesn't appear to do so.  If there are XKB
> problems, how can I go about diagnosing what might have changed
> between these two servers?  I haven't touched my XKB configuration in
> the interim.

Two things are handy:
a) the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log,
b) the output of setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc104 -layout us -print |
xkbcomp - :0




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