Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 19:04:23 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:15:20 -0500 (EST), Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I find that VT7 often cannot be deallocated after X shuts down, which > > explains why X has to use VT8 if started up again: > > > > # deallocvt 7 > > VT_DISA

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:15:20 -0500 (EST), Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think the present problem, which I can still reproduce on my Sid system, > is not related to #348033. > > I find that VT7 often cannot be deallocated after X shuts down, which > explains why X has to use VT8 if started up again: >

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 20:32:44 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] > I was able to reproduce the symptoms that you describe above when I first > arrived home. I verified that the X server was running on vt 7, then > did a logout. The login screen started on vt 8. From then on, no matter > wha

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:58:51 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > The commented option lines are showing their default values. It might be > worth setting VTAllocation=false (in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, [daemon] > section) and see if that has any effect. > > Hmm, from a gdm session logged in on tty7, logging

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells you what console it started on, and the flags > indicate that the option is supplied on the command line. For example, > >Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, >

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:26:33 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > I haven't filed a bug report because I'm not sure what to file it > against. I'm not even sure it could be called a bug, I don't have > anything in my config to tell GDM to specifically start on tty7, so it > just grabs the first available

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I must confess I never even thought to check that. The next time > it happens, I'll give it a try. Have either of you come up with > a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure? I'm not > explicitly stopping and rest

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 7 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > I must confess I never even thought to check that.  The next time > it happens, I'll give it a try.  Have either of you come up with > a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure?  I'm not > explicitly stopping and restarting the X server

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread josé Santos
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:11:02AM +, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 + > Tom Furie wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > > I have been having trouble lately with los

RE: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-07 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:06:20 -0500 > From: zlinux...@wowway.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a > text console under some conditions > > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:11:02 -0500 (EST), Frank McCorm

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:11:02 -0500 (EST), Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 +, Tom Furie wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my >>> graphical console. The basic symptom is

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 + Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my > > graphical console. The basic symptom is that I am in the > > g

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my graphical console. > The basic symptom is that I am in the graphical console, I switch to a text > console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, do some stuff in the text console, then when I >

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > You could add > > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide > > to the 'Links' section. Did that. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 18:44:25, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about > the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 You could add http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 17:44, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about > the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 > > Regards, Jan > > > Thanks

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-25 17:02 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz >> wrote: >>> Jan Willem Stumpel: Section "ServerFlags"         Option "DontZap"        "off" EndSection By

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-25 17:02 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Jan Willem Stumpel: >>> >>> Section "ServerFlags" >>>         Option "DontZap"        "off" >>> EndSection >>> >>> By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a >>> n

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel: >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >>         Option "DontZap"        "off" >> EndSection >> >> By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a >> non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? > > No, that's ex

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Willem Stumpel: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap""off" > EndSection > > By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a > non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? No, that's exactly what you are supposed to do. J. -- I throw away plastics a

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Steve Kemp wrote: > You can dump a skeleton xorg.conf file by running, as root: > > dexconf Yes, this gives an absolutely bare-bones xorg.conf with one "section" in it: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" EndSection It works; and in fact, even without any x

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun May 24, 2009 at 13:50:39 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > 2-Feeling a little bit guilty about running X without xorg.conf, (Don't feel guilty!) > ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I expected to get the well- > know litany of questions. You can dump a skeleton xorg.conf file by

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,24.May.09, 13:50:39, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > 1-Deleted (well, renamed of course) /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Made sure > that the keyboard description in /etc/defaults/console-setup > was OK. > Result: X works, OK it seems, without xorg.conf, and Alt-F7 > works also! Great, problem s

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-24 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Florian Kulzer wrote: > X crashing when switching back from the console is most > commonly caused by a problem with the video driver. There > should be some related error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or > in /var/log/syslog. (Switching back and forth between X and > console works fine for me; u

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 13:46:08 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. > > On my Sid, I can go to the console from X by means of, e.g., > Control-Alt-F2. This has been the behaviour of X for ages. > > Also for ages, you could go back to X by pressing Alt-F7. Howe

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 23 May 2009 13:46:08 Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. > > A bug, obviously. But in which package? Has it been reported to > the Debian BTS? I couldn't find it. > > Regards, Jan well, maybe not a bug as it is working fine on my up to date sid machine. The problem