From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOK9p-0001QU-Pq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0F2AE07DF; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com (out02.mta.xmission.com [166.70.13.232]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5EE07DF for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [166.70.13.201] (helo=mgr1.xmission.com) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1KOKA8-0004nP-Uw for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:52 -0600 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=hardcode42.net) by mgr1.xmission.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1KOK9n-00021p-3j for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:31 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:29 -0600 From: "Conway S. Smith" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching back to console Message-ID: <20080730162829.48c13e78@hardcode42.net> In-Reply-To: <350fc7cf0807300027m2e37c7fal6afb66ccafdbe382@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080730114833.0c7eb1ec@cuci> <350fc7cf0807300027m2e37c7fal6afb66ccafdbe382@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: beolach@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mgr1.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Archives-Salt: 624bba8e-83dc-49e4-807f-0e9f07174912 X-Archives-Hash: 9fce2673d88683d4aff43ce0abd565cf On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:27:20 -0700 "Andrey Falko" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:48 AM, ionut cucu > wrote: > > Hi list! > > For some time now (I seem to recall this not working a few weeks > > back ) I can't seem to be able to switch back to console from X > > with Ctr+Alt+Fn. Xev sees Ctr+Alt+Fn keycode as Fn keycode(don't > > know if this is expected behaivor or not). I can't the console to > > work neither from kde-svn nor from fluxbox. I have not defined no > > particular keyboard layout, I'm just using the default one. I > > have defined some key mappings for other keys, none of them > > involves F keys, and the behaivor is the same weather I use the > > mappings or not. Could you perhaps give me a hand with this? > > > > > > When you press CTRL+ALT+F1 for instance, do you get a black screen? > Or do you remain in the fluxbox/kde X session? There is no freeze up > either right? I don't know how much it will help, but can you post > all of the xorg files you edited? Maybe someone will spot something > unusual... > Specifically, look for a: Option "DontVTSwitch" "true" line in xorg.conf, and if it's there remove it or change it to false. Another option to look for in xorg.conf is "HandleSpecialKeys". Also check your Xorg.log files (maybe after increasing logging verbosity) for anything relevant, like XKEYBOARD extension errors. Good luck, Conway S. Smith