Cannot switch to tty with CTRL+ALT+F?

Question

Hi everybody,
I'm sitting in front of a fresh archlinux installation with kdemod installed. I notice that I can't switch to the terminals with CTRL+ALT+F?. I always used this kind of switching without configuring anything, so what could have gone wrong?
Thanks for any suggestions...
EDIT: by accident I wrote the german "STRG" instead of "CTRL"
Last edited by Kei (2007-07-09 16:40:00)

Answer 1

i've got the same problem here
I can kill sessions via CTRL+ALT+BKSP and navigate from vt1 to vt2 etc.., but not from X to any other terminals!
Global shortcuts don't seem to work either, might be a related problem!?
Output from xev for CTRL, ALT, F1
KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1772087, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1774643, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1774702, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1776252, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1776307, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1776962, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x0, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 1777014, (-158,305), root:(878,360),
state 0x0, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
and my xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "SHP"
ModelName "139f"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AGPMode" "8"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
Option "ColorTiling" "1"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "False"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection