On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:56 -0400, Jim Dever wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 08:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> On Sunday 08 June 2008 05:09:44 Ric Moore wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:09 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>> On Saturday 07 June 2008 08:29:12 Jim Dever wrote: > >>>>> g wrote: > >>>>>> Jim Dever wrote: > >>>>>>> Tim wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 05:11 -0400, Jim Dever wrote: > >>>>>>>>> I just tried it again to make sure. From an X session CTRL+ALT+Fn > >>>>>>>>> works but from a text console Alt-Fn does nothing. It's remains > >>>>>>>>> at the same tty I was at when I issued the CTRL+ALT+Fn from X. > >>>>>>>>> Any > >>>>>> you are saying 'from an x session', then 'from a text console' and > >>>>>> 'same tty'. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> so, 'from an x session to a text console, aka, virtual console, > >>>>>> staying in same tty, aka, same virtual console'. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> correct? > >>>>> Let me try and explain better. From X: Alt-CTRL-F1 takes me to a > >>>>> virtual console (tty1). From X: Alt-CTRL-F2 takes me to a virtual > >>>>> console (tty2). But once I'm at a text, virtual console Alt-F1 or > >>>>> Alt-F2 or Alt-F3.... don't do anything. I remain at the terminal > >>>>> where I came out of X. And I can't get back into X either. I'm > >>>>> stumped. > >>>>> > >>>>>>>> I am back on Fedora 9, now, and both ALT+Fn and CTRL+ALT+Fn are > >>>>>>>> working for me, so the problem is probably specific to your setup. > >>>>>> for me with f8, saa. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> It's definitely a straight plain vanilla installation. > >>>>>> as in what type keyboard? 102 -> 110 key? special music / power, etc? > >>>>>> din, pc, usb port? > >>>>> Machine is about a 7 year old Dell with a 110 key PC keyboard. It's > >>>>> not USB or wireless or anything like that. > >>>> FWIW my ~6-year-old Packard Bell laptop has the same problem. The only > >>>> wayout I can find is to shut down. > >>> You can't ctrl-alt F7 to get back to X?? Ric > >>> > >> Correct. Ctrl-alt plus some Fx do nothing. One, I think it's F5, changes the > >> screen resolution. F7 does nothing. At this point the only way out is to > >> shut down - it won't even reboot. If you have any apps open they crash on > >> the way out. > > > > Wow, it must be in the way the key combination works out in the > > resultant ASCII code. I wonder if you switched your keyboard setting to > > US instead of "Hail the Queen" if that would set ctrl-alt-F7 to rights, > > as well as your other keys?? It's a thought. When trouble shooting with > > a shotgun, you gotta hit something! Ric > > > > Well you won't believe this but I found the problem. This keyboard has > ALT keys on both sides of the space bar. The one on the left works > fine. Switches terminals and even takes me back to X. The ALT key on > the right does nothing. How's that for strange! Well yeah, they're two different keycodes. I (along with everyone else I'm guessing) assumed you meant the left Alt key. Right-Alt doesn't seem to do anything by default, either in console mode or under X. I use it as a Compose key for latin characters such as ¿). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
