virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-02 Thread hendrik
On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new Debian package. Anyone have any ideas where to start looking? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ u

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-02 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian packag

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 10:42]: > On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > > it excpet for regular upgrades

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian pack

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the insta

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian pack

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik AT topoi DOT pooq DOT com wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > > > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:10:25 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close > X with ctrl-alt-del. Isn't it ctrl-alt-backspace that's supposed to close X? -- hendrik > Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:05:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >> > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:11:28 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 10:42]: >> On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> > console a month or two ago. Now I have

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:52 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to >> it excpet for regular u

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have > passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better > investigate why I'm not getting the upgrades. If you have both linux-image-2.6- and l

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> >> I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have >> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better >> investigate why I'm not g

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian package. Anyone ha

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Brian McKee
On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text console a month or two ago. Today the vertual text consoles are back. No explanation. Doug Tutty gave up trying to instantiate t

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:27:10PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: > >>On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > >>console a month or two ago. > > >Today the vertual text consol

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 02 May 2008 16:27:10 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: >>> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >>> console a month or two ago. > >> Today the vertual text consoles ar