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rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Can't use alt-f1 to switch to console

I'm using gnome on my NB100 netbook. Everything is working great apart from a few small issues:

I can't use ctrl-alt-f1 etc to switch to the console - nothing happens, and
I can't use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X - again, nothing happens.

Also, when I shut down from the shutdown dialog in gnome, nothing happens. If I open up a terminal and run "sudo killall Xorg" then X dies and the machine proceeds to shutdown. I can see in the console that it hasn't started to change the runlevel until I manually kill Xorg.

I have checked in xev just in case that Xorg wasn't recognizing the ctrl or alt keys properly, but no problems there.

To be honest I'm stumped. Any advice would be gratefully received.

Last edited by rezza (2009-03-11 23:08:31)

koch

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: Can't use alt-f1 to switch to console

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66612

you should read this

rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: Can't use alt-f1 to switch to console

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66612

you should read this

Hmm, thanks, but I'm not quite sure what that has to do with my problems. Do you mean that you think my problems will be gone if I switch to a new version of xorg-server? I'm not crazy about starting to use testing packages on this machine, but I will do if nothing else works.

Rasi

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Re: Can't use alt-f1 to switch to console

I'm using gnome on my NB100 netbook. Everything is working great apart from a few small issues:

I can't use alt-f1 etc to switch to the console - nothing happens, and
I can't use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X - again, nothing happens.

Also, when I shut down from the shutdown dialog in gnome, nothing happens. If I open up a terminal and run "sudo killall Xorg" then X dies and the machine proceeds to shutdown. I can see in the console that it hasn't started to change the runlevel until I manually kill Xorg.

I have checked in xev just in case that Xorg wasn't recognizing the ctrl or alt keys properly, but no problems there.

To be honest I'm stumped. Any advice would be gratefully received.

Its alt+ctrl+f1

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rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: Can't use alt-f1 to switch to console

Its alt+ctrl+f1

Yes, I know. That was just a typo.