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| dmatt (martind) wrote Re: Alt-f2 switches to virtual terminal 2 | #1 |
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I had the same problem. ALT-F2 switched to terminal 2, ALT-F1 (not F7) switched back to GNOME GUI, CTRL-ALT-Fx did not work at all. At the same time all texts written in GUI application were copied into tty1 as well (these texts are visible during shutdown. This includes also cursor movements. tty1 showed repeating failing login prompts fed by characters entered in GUI.
After pressing CTRL-C in GUI, GDM is restarted and everything is functioning normally.
To me it looks like GDM is running in tty1 and keyboard mapping is confused.
Last restarts (after al upgrades) I could not reproduce problem with ALT-Fx keys to switch to different terminal, but CTRL-ALT-F7 does not switch to GUI and CTRL-ALT-F1 switches to GUI - so it still some discrepancy where the GUI is actually running.
I am using
Linux ***** 2.6.32-13-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:32:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
with ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
using only opensource drivers.