On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:39 -0400, Ron Youvan wrote:
> > Anyone ever heard of being unable to hit Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to a
> > console out of X? If so, what was the problem/fix?
>
> I don't know, but I wonder if the problem would survive killing
> the X server (with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) then testing Ctrl-Alt-Fn.
> (if the new X server doesn't automatically rebuild a startx command
> will have to be entered)
If you have an X server running on any getty, then Ctrl-Alt-Fn should
work to move between any gettys, right? But, if you kill X, then Alt-Fn
is all that works for switching between gettys. This is how it works
for me in Debian Sarge. -Eric Jahn
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