Missing virtual terminals
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 8 15:03:29 UTC 2005
Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2005, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>> > Did they change default runlevel? It looks like they changed it so that
>> > getty will only be running on tty1 if runlvel > 3
>> >
>> > 'ps a | grep getty' will tell you which gettys are running...
>> >
>> > Have they/you manage to sneak the following into xorg.conf?
>> > Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"
>> >
>> What exactly happens when you press "CTRL+ALT+F1" from within X? Do you
>> switch to a blank screen or simply *nothing* happens (you are still
>> inside GNOME/KDE)?
>
> in my case nothing happen. I'm still inside Gnome (if I'm logged in), or
> at
> the gdm prompt if I'm not. The ctrl+alt+fX keys are totally ignored. And
> it used to work, until 1 or 2 weeks ago.
Same thing in KDE. All the gettys are there. There's no DontVTSwitch in
xorg.conf, but that would seem to be the place where the problem is. If I
kill kdm from an SSH session, I can get to the consoles.
--
derek
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