Console switching

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Revell wrote:

> 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.

iirc, it was a bug in a pre-release breezy upgrade that caused this.  I went
through it last summer.  
-- 
derek