[arrandale] X hijacks Alt-Fn and Alt-Arrow to switch VTs

[Matt Price]

Binary package hint: xorg

After a recent upgrade Alt-Fn and Alt-Arrow cause VT-switching. Ctrol-Alt-Fn also still works as expected.

It's fairly disruptive, would love to either fix it or find a workaround. please let me know if there's anything i can do. it may be related to this bug which appeared at the same time:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/572986

thanks,
matt

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic-tuxonice x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 1 08:31:02 2010
DkmsStatus:
 rtl8192se, 2.6.0015.0127.2010, 2.6.32-21-generic-tuxonice, x86_64: installed
 rtl8192se, 2.6.0015.0127.2010, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
 rtl8192se, 2.6.0015.0127.2010, 2.6.33-020633-generic, x86_64: built
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 17ef:480f Lenovo
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: LENOVO 2516CTO
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic-tuxonice root=UUID=08517b2d-d32a-45d4-b574-a6d38f0dde9c ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 01/07/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6IET49WW (1.09 )
dmi.board.name: 2516CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6IET49WW(1.09):bd01/07/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2516CTO:pvrThinkPadT410:rvnLENOVO:rn2516CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2516CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic-tuxonice

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:215a]

[Matt Price (matt-price)]

found some ancient redhat bug reports that seem to be of the same behaviour, not sure if the discussion there will help with diagnosis?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467634 (comment 2 is clearest in the description of my problem)
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/10/avoid-evdev-devices-in-xorgconf.html (last paragraph)

[Eugene (eugene-tarasov)]

I don't using xorg-video-intel driver? but I have same problem as described below too.

[Eugene (eugene-tarasov)]

BTW, restarting X helps until next reboot...

[neo (tkolodziejski)]

Same problem here but it appeared just after installing and booting tuxonice kernel (2.6.32-24-generic-tuxonice #38~ppa1-Ubuntu SMP)

[neo (tkolodziejski)]

I've found somewhere a solution. After commenting out:

#Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
# Identifier "Mouse0"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "auto"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"

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

in my xorg.conf everything's working fine.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Have you tried 10.10/11.04 to see if this still happens?

[YYY (yurii-ptz)]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797010.html
+++
Fixed for now by editing /usr/bin/startx and passing in "-retro" to serverargs: Код:
...
 defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp -br"
 clientargs=""
 serverargs="-retro"

 enable_xauth=1
 ...
+++

it help me...

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

Experiencing the very same problem with 11.10. Used it since Alpha, bug appeared sometime in beta phase IIRC.

[hackel (hackel)]

Currently experiencing this problem on 12.04 with nvidia driver. Impossible to tell if it's really the same bug or just the same symptom from the little information we have so far. I can't recall ever expericing this problem in the past.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Matt Price, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-evdev REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs