What happened to Ctrl-Atl-Fx?
 

I can't get to a terminal using Ctrl-Alt-F1-7 since upgrading to 12.0 (which was a real PITA while troubleshooting my xorg.conf file).

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace & Del behave as expected.

I didn't see any similar threads. Is it something I did?

I noticed the same thing to.

I am having similar problems, only Ctrl+Alt+Fn actually appears to lock up X completely (Blank screen, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, etc.) I ended up using the Alt+SysRq hooks to sync my filesystem and reboot. Luckily no lost work, but a troubling bug.

I wonder if the problem is with the OSS ati drivers? What cards are you using?

I had the same problem with Slackware 11.0. After instaliing Slackware 12.0 that problem vanished.
Have you configured your keyboards to something different from the US layout? I had played with different keyboard settings in 11.0 and people told me this is the possible reason if I have messed something up.

I've upgraded two of my three Slackware machines from 11.0 to 12.0, and I did not have that problem. One was a desktop, the other was a Thinkpad T43. Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 worked fine for me at all times. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace worked fine as well when I had X configuration problems on one of my machines.

What motherboards do you have? Were all of you upgrading or were these clean installs?

I have noted that the problem only exists when X is running. My installation of Slackware 12 was a fresh install, and I installed the updated xf86-ati package from /extra. From a cold boot -- or after shutting down X by logging out of KDE -- I can use Ctrl+Alt+Fn to get to the other terminals just fine. However, with X running, doing a Ctrl+Alt+Fn leaves a blank screen. (I am pretty sure I am at the login prompt, but I cannot see anything.)

Is this concurrent with others who are experience this problem?

With Slackware 11.0 I experienced exactly the same. I posted a lot in this forum about that. People suggested there was something wrong with the keyboard setting. Anyway, I never found the reason, because the problem was solved after installing 12.0 with the default US keyboard layout.
It would be nice if this problem be finally diagnosed :)

Default US keyboard layout here, same as always.

I did change the driver in xorg.conf from "keyboard" to "kbd" after the former caused X server errors.

I think it may have to do with switching video modes -- my desktop is dual monitor (dual head ati card) with xinerama where each screen is 1280x1024 whereas my default terminal is the VESA framebuffer 1024x768x256 (lilo passes vga=773 to the kernel at boot time.) After booting, I get the 1024x768 terminal cloned on both monitors, and Ctrl+Alt+Fn works fine. If I cause the bug to appear by switching to another virtual terminal while X is running, the keyboard still works fine, the screen is just blank. At this point, I am not able to get X to respond to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

Not sure if this would help. Check to see if you have "DontVTSwitch" option enabled in you xorg.conf. Set it to false and see if the problem goes away.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg02479.html

Hmm. I'm running an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 64M with the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09 driver - same as with 11.0.

Here's my xorg.conf file:

Perhaps you could try using the open-source driver, nv, in your xorg.conf and see if you have the same problem.

My guess is that this has to with the wrong/incorrect keyboard layout. Try using pc105 or pc104 layouts and see if this helps. Also, try enabling xkb extension. This is how I got it to work on my BLFS system. You might have to install xkb package if you don't already have it.

Check these out:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/003473.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=132186
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1619

Tried modifying the keyboard section as follows, no change:

Just to say, I can use Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a terminal in 12.0. This didn't work for me in 11.0!