Breezy: Virtual consoles still broken?

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Tue Sep 13 21:30:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:34 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:26:40PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > basically, install xkbutils and xkeyboard-config, and there could be some
> > problems with xkeyboard-config that need you to force dpkg to override some
> > missing config files.
> 
> Hm. I already have both of those packages installed and up
> to date, and yet I still don't have virtual consoles. Drat.
> 
> I just did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, so we'll see if
> that helps.

You can always run 'sudo chvt 1' to see if it can even switch to virtual
terminal (thus ruling out any X misconfigurations).

(chvt is in console-tools)

mike


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