I boot linux to a console prompt and launch xorg as needed with startx... I've done it that way since my first Red Hat install nearly 10 years ago and every new install I've done since then (all LFS) I've copied my preferences from one .xinitrc to the next. All of which is to say, as far as I know none of my settings have changed since the last time this worked between one and eight weeks ago (I don't need that functionality very often, so I don't remember for sure the last time it worked).
But for some reason, some time within the last month or two the ctrl-alt-Fn combination will no longer take me out of my X desktop and back to one of the virtual terminal consoles. When I'm out of X entirely, ctrl-alt-Fn and alt-Fn both work the same to move me among the six virtual terminals I set up in inittab. I also just discovered that ctrl-alt-Fn still works for root, just not my day-to-day login. The problem occurs on both my new (within the past week) LFS+BLFS build with kernel 2.6.22.6 + xorg 7.3, as well as the partition with my older build on it (kernel 2.6.21.5 + xorg 7.2). I use fluxbox as my window manager and recently updated it, but the same problem occurs when I remove fluxbox and start X with just twm. I do not load any special keyboard or console options with loadkeys; I just the out-of-the-box us keyboard configuration with whatever defaults the kernel picks. Root can run chvt and get back to a text console, but that program will not let non-root run it. Somewhere in my recent updates I must have done something to screw up the ability to switch among VTs, but I can't think of what it could be. Any suggestions on where to look? I don't even know what system (kernel, xorg, whatever) maps the operation of the function keys to the vt console switcher. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email account with anti spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/2 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
