Cannot switch to tty (terminal, console) with ctrl - alt - F#

Question

Hi,
I have been stably using arch for half a year,
but never managed to switch to another tty.
I have three suspicions: one is that xmodmap somehow
interferes, as I switched capslock and ctrl, and also
alt and winkey (but that is not an issue on a fedora
install). second, that me switching into runlevel 5
in /etc/inittab somehow is responsible. and third, that
it has something to do with awesome, my window manager.
any ideas are greatly appreciated, thanks!
> uname -r
2.6.31-ARCH
> awesome --version
awesome v3.3.4 (Mercury)
• Build: Sep  9 2009 18:32:37 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.4.1 (nobody@Miranda)
• D-Bus support: ✔

Answer 1

Hi all and thanks for the comments,
much to my surprise it was the easiest one - xmodmap causes it,
although on fedora, there is no trouble with the identical setup,
thats why i hadn't checked earlier.
after xmodmapping, alt, ctrl, and F# keys all work independently,
but not together.
So here goes my .Xmodmap (the 166/167 lines are for the
buttons lenovo introduced around the arrow keys and don't
always work as intended, so disregard).
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
add Lock = Control_L
add Control = Caps_Lock
keycode 166 = Prior Home Home Home Home Home Home Home
keycode 167 = Next End End End End End End End
remove mod1 = Alt_L
remove mod4 = Super_L
add mod1 = Super_L
add mod4 = Alt_L
Any ideas how to go on from here? Because often a
tty comes in quite handy....