Excerpts from lee's message of Fri Jun 25 20:31:15 +0000 2010: > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the > xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager. I'm assuming you're running squeeze, not lenny.
> This has been going on for a quite a while now, but just now I had to > press reset button because I couldn't get out of X11 anymore :( I want > the default behaviour that allows switching and zapping back ... No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get Ctrl+Alt+BS working again you need to change /etc/default/keyboard: XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" If you have Magic SysRq enabled in your kernel (IIRC the default Debian kernel does), you can use that instead of reset the next time you need it. Press: AltGr+SysRq+S (SysRq=S-Abf on a german keyboard) to sync disks, AltGr+SysRq+U for emergency unmount of all file systems, AltGr+SysRq+B to reboot or AltGr+SysRq+O to power down (on many systems only one of B and O works). There are more key combinations (see Documentation/sysrq.txt in the Linux kernel source), but these are the most important ones. Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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