Recently I've installed Woody on my Dell CPt laptop (Mobile P2-400). The installation was started from scratch using the bf2.4 floppy+http (not from cdrom), so I'm sure my system has the latest stable release.
Since GUI is required for my engineering work, I used apt-get to install the x-window-system-core and wmaker packages after I'm satisfy with the network and apm setup in console mode. No [gkx]dm was installed, and I typed 'startx' manually after user login to go into X.
The problem is that once I am in X, I cannot go back to text concole mode any more without resetting the system by Ctrl-Alt-Del. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp does kill the X server, but I am left with a blank screen without the prompt. The system is not completely hung, as Ctrl-Alt-Del can be issued to shut it down gracefully.
Similarly, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] does not give me a virtual console as documented. I only get a blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F7 would get me back to X, and I can continue my work there.
Can someone kindly give me some clues on how to debug this?
Probably a few answers in the archives of debian-laptop.
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