Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 21 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Initially I did not think too much about xorg.conf since your problem > was caused by an upgrade without configuration change (if I understood > you correctly). I guess the new version of Xorg is somehow less tolerant > towards ill-defined configurat

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 13:42:09 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed November 21 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >     Option         "XkbVariant" "us" > > > EndSection > > > > Try to change your xorg.conf to: > > > > Option         "XkbVariant" "" > > BINGO ! that did it! Initially I did not

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 21 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >     Option         "XkbVariant" "us" > > EndSection > > Try to change your xorg.conf to: > > Option         "XkbVariant" "" BINGO ! that did it! > > and restart X. (You can also comment out that line completely.) > > You can also try to run > >

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 21:20:15 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > That looks OK to me. > > > > Which output do you get for these three commands: [...] > $ awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "Input

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > That looks OK to me. > > Which output do you get for these three commands: > > awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf > $ awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputD

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 16:28:50 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > That seems OK to me. Which events are reported if you run "xev" and > > press (separately) CTRL, ALT, and the Fn keys? > # xev [...] > KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, windo

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > That seems OK to me. Which events are reported if you run "xev" and > press (separately) CTRL, ALT, and the Fn keys? # xev Outer window is 0x261, inner window is 0x262 PropertyNotify event, serial 8, synthetic NO, window 0x261, atom

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 17:55:09 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon November 19 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > users by doing the CTRL-ALT-F8/F7 or go to the text login by doing the > > > CTRL-ALT-F1. when I am in a konsole window and I do the CTRL-ALT-F7, here > > > is what it shows: > > >

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon November 19 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > users by doing the CTRL-ALT-F8/F7 or go to the text login by doing the > > CTRL-ALT-F1. when I am in a konsole window and I do the CTRL-ALT-F7, here > > is what it shows: > > $ ;7~ > > It seems your keyboard setup got screwed up. To make sure, try

Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:07:24 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > since this issue with the nvidia card happened, I also can't switch between > users by doing the CTRL-ALT-F8/F7 or go to the text login by doing the > CTRL-ALT-F1. when I am in a konsole window and I do the CTRL-ALT-F7, here is > w