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Re: [LUG] Switching from X11 to vtty

 

try another keyboard? check that the keymap hasn't changed somehow? if
you shut down the x server can you switch VTs again?

On Feb 3, 2008 3:56 PM, Thomas Arrow <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have, due to external circumstances, been forced to reboot my desktop after
> a rather long period of uptime. Upon reboot I have found that once in X11 I
> could not switch to a vtty with Ctrl-Alt-f[1-6]. All it does is enter the
> characters [P-S] for f[1-4] and ;7~ for all f keys higher than that. I use my
> terminals quite a lot and would like them back.
> I am currently running linux-2.6.23 on gentoo which is the same and before the
> reboot. I may have changed something before then.
> I had, on a seemingly unrelated note, changed /usr/include/asm to the one in
> my kernel sources and back again. This does not seem to affect it but does
> cause errors in compiling software; just in case this has had some other
> unknown impact.
> If it seems like a good idea I could move up to 2.6.24 but I don't want to
> introduce any more changes.
>
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