Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:48:37 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CTRL]+[ALT]+[Fi] on 2.10 Message-ID: <20050316194837.AB9E75D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:26:49 %2B0100." <20050316172035.B54006@pukruppa.net>
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> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:26:49 +0100 (CET) > From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, James Earl wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:07:24 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa > > <root@pukruppa.net> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> for some time now I can't access the text console via > >> [CTRL]+[ALT]+[Fi] anymore. > >> Does anyone else see this, > >> and if yes: is this an issue with gnome2.10 or xorg? > >> or did I miss something? > >> > >> My # uname -a is > >> > >> 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 14 17:06:34 CET > >> 2005 root@pukruppa.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMALL i386 > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Uli. > > > > Did you by chance, buy a new keyboard recently? > No, but from your answer I assume that switching to console still > works and I have to study fine manuals what went wrong with my > german keyboard setup (frequent problem after gnome upgrades :-( This is a long shot, but... On one system of mine, the mapping of the swap of CTRL and CapsLock stopped working. Are you swapping them? I went into Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard and selected "Layout Options"->"Control Key Position" to fix this. Then I could get back to the vtys again. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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