On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:22:34PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last > >> week, and used it to install testing. > >> > >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using > >> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened. > >> > >> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command > >> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the > >> best place to be controlling the upgrade from. > > > > Shot in the dark - they wouldn’t have made the DontVTSwitch Xorg config > > the default..? > > That's the kind of thing I was wondering. How do I go about finding out > whether this is true, now that xorg configures itself?
Aye, there’s there’s the rub .. :-) Maybe.. _maybe_ you could set up a minimal xorg.conf and have it switch that flag off..? I’m still on “lenny” so I probably cannot go beyond (possibly useless) speculation. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
