[Lilux-help] Switching to text mode

[Pascal Steichen]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:24:16PM +0200, Alex wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 13:07, Juri Chome wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after a major system upgrade, I can't switch from X to text mode anymore
> > ([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F1-F6]). Changing resolution with [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[+] and
> > [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[-] isn't working either. I'm using the last X in Debian
> > unstable, fluxbox 0.9.9, although I don't think the problem lies within
> > the window manager.
> >
> > Anybody got a clue or a similar problem? Googling didn't help.
> >
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> > Juri
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> 
> Hi Juri
> 
> My first thought is a broken keymap file. 
> Does your Ctrl-Key work?
> Sorry, silly question but also silly problem

Silly problem ? Well I think no problem is silly, only the answers ;)

In fact I got a similar problem on my laptop, after messing around with the lilo vga parameter and framebuffering. I didn't have time to investigate further but I have a feeling that it is related to framebuffering, so what you could try is recomplile your kernel without framebuffering. Just a suggestion, cause that's what I wanted to test next.

If you find any solution I'm interessted ;)

ciao,
pst

> Al
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