Hi...
Hopefully someone can help with a problem I've had since Day One of using
Gentoo. It has to do with which virtual terminal X11 inhabits.
In all other flavors of Linux I've used (RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE,
Debian...), <Ctrl-Alt-F(7|9)> will bring me back to my X session after
I've used <Ctrl-Alt-F1> to get a command prompt. In Gentoo, however,
trying this results in a hard system freeze -- even <Alt-SysRq-B> does
nothing! :(
My monitor shows "No Signal!" and goes into a Suspend state because of
this, and I actually have to power down using the buttons on my case,
then power up and boot to regain control. Obviously this does not help
my uptime, when programs like Xine and Frozen-Bubble can bring my system
to its knees.
FYI, even if nothing is going haywire at the moment, and I just drop to a
console to do some administrative task, I still can't get back to my X
session. (Needless to say, I've made much more extensive use of "su"
from Konsole lately than I ever did before... I used to just
<Ctrl-Alt-F1> to get a text console, do whatever as root, then
<Ctrl-Alt-F9> back to X11.)
If somebody knows how I can fix this, I would be very happy to share in
that knowledge!
If it helps, I'm on a dual-P3 system at 800MHz, Abit VP6 motherboard, 1GB
RAM, Hercules Graphite Terminator Pro (2MB) graphics card.[1] I'm
running Gentoo-sources kernel, version 2.4.19-gentoo-r10.
Thanks for any assistance,
[1] Yeah, I know some folks will think the graphics card is a weak link in
some way... but Linux has been my main helper in getting the most out of
my hardware over the years, and until I have some *need* for accelerated
3D first-person-shooter games, I will keep this card. When it blows up
or melts, I will replace it with something more current, but not before
then. :-p
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