Ctrl+Alt+F7 Does not work
 

Hi,
It recently came to my notice that Ctrl+Alt+F7 is not working,i.e it is not taking me back to gnome session.Ctrl+Alt+[F1-F6] works perfectly.Ctrl+Alt+[F7-F12] no luck.Compiz was never enabled and is disabled right now.
Here are the results of the following commands

1)ps -ax | grep X

Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
897 ? S 0:00 avahi-daemon: running [phycosis-XP-M5ARC410.local]
1917 tty1 S+ 0:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.mWLyA12RgO
1918 tty7 Ss+ 0:21 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.mWLyA12RgO
2447 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto X

2)setxkbmap -print

xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};

3)xmodmap -pk | grep '(F[0-9]+)'

This command does not give any result and goes back to the prompt


4)awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

5)xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)

6)vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "radeon"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection


The legacy/proprietary driver for my graphic card (radeon x200) is no longer supported by current x-server/xorg.Hence using the default.The Ctrl+Alt+F7/F8 used to work properly before on this installation.Desktop is Linux Mint 10 Julia.
I would be greatful if someone could help me out here.
(Been a long day today,gotta catch some sleep.Will look up tomorrow.)

THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING SUCH A LOVELY COMMUNITY.MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.

Hi devaj

To go to the X-session from the command prompt, you would use Alt+F7. To go from X-Server to command prompt, use Ctrl+Alt+{F1-F6}. Ctrl is not necessary when going from command prompt to X-Session. Usually is does work with Ctrl+Alt+F7 anyhow.
I've had the same issue some time ago with the proprietary AMD driver. For me, switching between command prompt and x-server now works with the radeon driver. So, it's exactly the other way round. I would still suspect the graphics driver and not keyboard or kernel settings.
Just a first guess: With a recent linux kernel, you shouldnt need xorg.conf at all anymore. Try renaming your xorg.conf to something like xorg.save and reboot at least gdm with /etc/init.d/gdm restart. If your X-Server works like that, you can leave your xorg.save, otherwise you will have to rename it to xorg.conf again.
Try switching from command prompt to x-server when no xorg.conf is present.

Sorry for replying after such a long time.I have learned a lot about linux in the past year and would like to contribute to this great forum.The solution that I eventually did find out was that you can change tty using chvt tty number (to all the newbs,the non-graphical+the graphical desktops from CTRL+F1 to CTRL+F8 are called tty1 to tty8 respectively).
eg
will take you to CTRL+F1
will take you to CTRL+F7(your graphical desktop)

If chvt 7 does not take you to your graphical desktop then do try (Mine was mapped to F8 not F7,don't know why)

Here is the procedure:
Log in again through any tty accessible,in my case I preferred the first tty (by executing CTRL+F1).After loggin in execute if chvt 7 does not work then try Do also check wether it's a hardware problem or not (it was in my case,much ado about nothing,lol).
A good way to find this out is by opening a terminal,preferances and going into the shorcut key menu or keybinding menu.There select any function and try to change the shortcut key of the function with the problematic hardware key,in my case I tried changing the Zoom out function shorcut key (CTRL-) with all the functions keys one at a time and thus found out that my F7 and F8 keys were not working at all,a hardware problem.
Hope this information would help a newb in future