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Followed the Arch linux beginners guide,
got me Arch linux system working AMD 3000, 1GB ram, nvidia 6200.
i'm very happy with boot-time, speed and Xfce.
BUT: when i have Xfce running
i cannot use Ctr+Alt+F1 or Ctr+Alt+F2 (and so on) to switch to my terminals.
Yea i have some experience with Linux:
Suse 7, Suse 10, Ubuntu. But installing Archlinux was a lot of work but i continued: is good experience and i learned so much about linux that i can use with many other distros.
I'm still stuck with a number of issues but hope to solve them in the near future with the enormous amount of info in this forum.
Just cannot find somethin about my problem with terminals
Hope someone an be of help.
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See if you have " Option "DontVTSwitch" "true" " in the ServerFlags-section in your xorg.conf, because that disables terminal switching.
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thanks for the suggestion, found this also after a long search around the forums, BUT it did not improve.
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thanks for the suggestion, found this also after a long search around the forums, BUT it did not improve.
Hm, odd. No idea then. Sorry.
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Is this issue only X-related ? Can you switch to the differents vc from textmode ?
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Ok, ok i found it:
HAL was disabled.
May i suggest in the beginners guide to install HAL before the user test X !!
Need to explain further:
- followed Wiki-beginners guide to install ARCHlinux
- at some point is advised to test X.
X worked but i had no control over the system and after
some digging on the internet i found: Option "AllowEmptyInput" "no"
This did the trick, X was working.
- instal Xfce
- Section "Useful deamons" tells you to install hal and fam.
after that X worked really weird were every key appeared 3 times.
So to solve this i disable HAL.
- than i got terminals to disappear when X is running
and when X is stopped the terminals are back again.
But i did not realise this was related to HAL.
- Did some reading on Hal, learned something about Linux and
now i'm back, HAL is enabled and all is working GOOD.
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