[SOLVED] Can't get to alternate ttys

Tony0945 · Last edited by Tony0945 on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:59 am; edited 1 time in total

I have one system that boots into a guest autologin using gdm primarily for Linux newbies to run firefox.

Somehow, when changing the profile from 2007.0 to default/2008.0/desktop, I lost the ability to switch tty's using CTL-ALT-F1 et cetera. I like to sync and upgrade in a non-X environment, but can't get to it anymore. CTL-ALT-Backspace kills X, but gdm just restarts.

At the same time, the keypad Home, End, Del, and arrow keys stopped working. Hitting Home in an Xterminal results in ";P7" being typed.

My main machine is of the same processor family, Amd64, and has a similar keyboard and the same Nvidia video chip. Are their any files I can copy to restore the broken machine? I don't understand the Xkeyboard options in xorg.conf at all.

VinzC · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Can't get to alternate ttys

Tony0945 · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:58 am Post subject:

Thank you for the hint. It lead me to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg#Keyboard_Mappings.

As suggested there, I unmerged xkeyboard-config and emerged xkbdata which solved the problem.