On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +0000, Sascha Silbe wrote: > 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.
Uhm, it's Debian testing amd64 --- if that's called squeeze atm, yes :) > > 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" Cool, I added that and will try it out. I also found that there's the wrong keyboard model still specified (105 keys) because I replaced the junk keyboard I had to use with a model M (102 keys) a few days ago. Do you know where I could find some documentation about these XKBOPTIONS? Google wasn't helpful with that ... > 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: Yeah, I thought of that yesterday, but I can never remember which keys to press when it comes to needing it. I'll just have to print that documentation and keep it around ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100626131847.ge4...@yun.yagibdah.de
