Bug#484294: xserver-xorg: default xorg.conf breaks switching to VT via Ctrl-Alt-Fn

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun  3, 2008 at 15:54:04 +0200, add001@quantentunnel.de wrote:

> In my case at least, commenting the line
> 	Option		"XkbVariant"	"dead"
> 
> in the keyboard's InputDevice section made VT switching work again
> both in the session and in the display manager's login greeter.
> 
> I do not know how dpkg-reconfigure generates the xorg.conf, so I have
> no idea on how/if something needs to be corrected. (older xorg.conf of
> mine had and XkbLayout "us_intl" instead of "us" with the "dead"
> XkbVariant option). But for me usability of the xserver is strongly
> affected without the possibility of VT switching, so I figured this
> warrants a bug report.
> 
The xserver-xorg package asks you for the xkb settings.  If you give it
broken values (it seems that the "dead" variant of the "us" layout
doesn't exist) there's not much we can do about that...
Not sure why there's no warning/error in your X log, though.  Have you
checked the display manager's log?

Cheers,
Julien