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



dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and selecting the xorg keyboard with 105 keys (the settings I had
under xfree86) worked for me, give it a try.
Bye,

Michele

2005/9/10, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Julian
> 
> 
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