On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:12:42AM -0400, J. Michael McGarrah wrote: > > I'm unable to get to the text mode terminals once I start X11 on my > system. I'm running the most current unstable debian for sparc on an > Ultra 60. > > Alt-F1 / Ctrl-Alt-F1 do not break out of X to a text console mode. If I > don't start X then I can use the virtual consoles. > > I'm not doing anything terrible unusual on my system and have seen the > same on another sparc system setup as well. Is this just something that > doesn't work on debian sparc machines? I remember this working on Red Hat > 6.2 systems. > > Appreciate any help.
The Debian X Strike Force expects this problem to be solved in the next XFree86 package release. Changes by Denis Barbier: * Make Sun keyboards load srvr_ctrl(xfree86) symbol definitions to have access to standard Ctrl+Alt key sequences. (Closes: #236086) Also see: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/changelog http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
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