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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:29:10 -0500
From:      Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can No Longer Get To Virtual Consoles After -STABLE Update
Message-ID:  <467D9EB6.7070905@tundraware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070620002854.78d5d06a@localhost>
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Norberto Meijome wrote:
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>> #  Xorg 6.8.(2|99.903) - Add "XkbDisable" to be true (for
>> #         console switching).
>>
>>         Option  "XkbDisable"    "true"
> 
> exactly :) as per the other emails I refered, the issue is with Xkb extensions
> when you have multiple / altnernative kb layouts
> 
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> 	at the end of my xorg.conf.
>> 	This has fixed the "ctl+alt+<Fn>" problem.  There may be side
>> effects, but so far I haven't triggered any of them.
>>
> 
> yes, you can't use alternative keyboard layouts and switch between them. there
> is a proposed work around (also in the archives) ,but I haven't tested it yet.
> 
> cheers,
> B

FWIW, I never had to do this with older version of XF86, and even this
change applied to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf does not remedy the problem
for xorg 7.2 (which otherwise works fine).  I wonder if there is more magic
here yet to be applied ...


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