Console switching

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:32 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:22 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 
> >> That's normal, does Alt-Fn work once you've got to a getty?
> > 
> > Yes, it does.
> 
> Take a look at this:
> 
> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17921#c6
> 
> if you do:
> $ sudo apt-get -d install xkeyboard-config
> $ sudo dpkg -i --force-confmiss  \
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xkeyboard-config<TAB complete latest>.deb
> 
> It might fix it. I think this will scrub out any custom configuration
> you've done, so you might prefer to examine and fix the xkeyboard
> configuration instead.
> 
> That bug also mentions an xorg.conf issue to do with the framebuffer device.

That fixed the problem, thanks!

I definitely never customized any of these settings, except once when I
had to use System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->"Reset to Defaults"
to work around another bug - that probably introduced the problem.

Thanks again,

Lee