[plug] Can't Switch VT - Xorg

[Bernard Blackham]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:49:10PM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> I have just installed Xorg on Debian using Ubuntu packages.
> Everything appears to be working fine except I can no longer switch VT
> with "Ctrl-Alt F1..."
> I don't think this is related to my other keyboard problem as I could
> switch using XFree86.
> 
> Any ideas?

Do you have a "DontVTSwitch" line in your xorg.conf? If not, try
forcing it to false?

You can probably do Alt+Sysrq+R to switch the keyboard into Raw
mode, then try Alt+F1, but that's less than optimal. Does running
chvt from a root prompt in X work?

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>