Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-12-04 Thread Shan Mignot
Hi, Sorry I'v been away last week... All right, I'v tried all three suggestions you made: * with xkeysym, I get: 64 0 Alt_L for left Alt 37 0 Control_L for left Ctrl 67 12 F1 for F1 * with xev, I get: keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L) for left ALt keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L) for left C

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:02:42 +0100, Shan Mignot wrote: > > I'v tried several things. First of all, I added: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontVTSwitch" "false" > Option "DontZoom" "false" > Option "DisableVidModeExtension" "false" > E

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Shan Mignot
I'v tried several things. First of all, I added: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontVTSwitch" "false" Option "DontZoom" "false" Option "DisableVidModeExtension" "false" EndSection to my XF86Config and checked that these options were recogniz

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:06:29 +0100, Shan Mignot wrote: > > All right, here is how things behave: > > * as a normal user (shan): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 2 > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console > zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 1 > Couldnt get a

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Shan Mignot
All right, here is how things behave: * as a normal user (shan): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 2 Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 1 Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 * as root t

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:35:41 +0100, Shan Mignot wrote: > > Hi, > > For some time now I have not been able to switch to other ttys. Pressing > Ctrl-Alt-F1 ... F6 simply does not result in anything. I've seen somewhere > that > it may be related to the console-tools, console-data and console-commo

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread housetier
once you are on one of the ttys, try alt+fn to switch between them. ctrl+alt+fn is only needed to switch from x to another tty -- Lasse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Shan Mignot
Hi, For some time now I have not been able to switch to other ttys. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 ... F6 simply does not result in anything. I've seen somewhere that it may be related to the console-tools, console-data and console-common packages but I have no idea how. Looking at my /etc/inittab, I don't