What happened to Ctrl-Atl-Fx?

2Gnu · 07-07-2007, 07:25 PM

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?

mortal · 07-07-2007, 07:51 PM

I noticed the same thing to.

thegoofeedude · 07-07-2007, 10:33 PM

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?

tramni1980 · 07-07-2007, 10:43 PM

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.

Z038 · 07-07-2007, 10:43 PM

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?

thegoofeedude · 07-07-2007, 10:57 PM

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?

tramni1980 · 07-07-2007, 11:09 PM

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

2Gnu · 07-07-2007, 11:17 PM

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.

thegoofeedude · 07-07-2007, 11:41 PM

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.

kevkim55 · 07-08-2007, 12:01 AM

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

2Gnu · 07-08-2007, 12:06 AM

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:

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Sat May 26 01:04:16 PDT
 2007

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Fri Dec 15 10:13:06 PS
T 2006

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen         "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
#    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse1"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Modes"

        # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
    Identifier         "16:10"
    ModeLine     "1680x1050_60.00" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
 -hsync +vsync
        # 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz
    ModeLine     "1280x800" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsy
nc
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Hitachi"
    ModelName      "LCD Panel"
    UseModes       "16:10"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 60.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 100.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce FX Go5200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

#    Option         "metamodes" "1280x800 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Z038 · 07-08-2007, 12:26 AM

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

kevkim55 · 07-08-2007, 12:54 AM

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

2Gnu · 07-08-2007, 01:37 AM

Tried modifying the keyboard section as follows, no change:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option     "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    Option     "XkbModel"      "pc105"
    Option     "XkbLayout"     "us"
    Option     "XkbVariant"    ""
    Option     "XkbOptions"    ""

EndSection

Nylex · 07-08-2007, 01:58 AM

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!