no Ctrl+alt+f1 back to console after X starts

njcwotx · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 587 Location: Texas

I just installed a new system, After setting up X I no longer can get Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or any F#) key to get the console screen. If I use gdm and logout I can never get back to console but can log back into kde, If I use startx and logout I do get back to console and ctrl+alt+f1 works again. Any ideas?
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

When I upgraded to xorg-server-1.5 I lost the ability to ctrl+alt_f1 also. I'm not sure if this will do the trick from you, since you said it was a new install, but try this:

njcwotx · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 587 Location: Texas

chvt 1 works, but re-emerging the 3 apps did not help. I might try to review my use flags and rebuild xorg. Im on 1.5.3-r6.

Also for what its worth, Ctrl+Alt+F# produces nice and strange charachters in terminal if I try it there, so I guess its jacked up the keyboard input as you suggest.

thx for the tip, I can live with chvt for now.
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

Can you post your xorg.conf? There might be something odd in it that is messing you up.

Also, can you change to other vt's once you are out of X (e.g ctrl+alt+f2 when you are on vt1).

njcwotx · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 587 Location: Texas

yes, keys worked once chvt was run, but I had to always use chvt to exit X.

I did however find the offending lines in Xorg, after you suggested I post it I took a peak and found these lines and removed them and it works fine now.
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbVariant" "us"

I might play to see which of these I can add back before it breaks again.
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

One thing to note, if you are using >=xorg-server-1.5 (which you are) with USE=hal, you should add evdev to you INPUT_DEVICES var in your make.conf. If you do this, your keyboard and mouse will be autoplugged by hal, and you don't need any Input sections in your xorg.conf. You might want to try removing all those sections. Happy to hear things are working now though!