Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from X to a VT

[Donnie Berkholz]

Statux wrote:
> I don't know if this has been asked yet/recently, but I've noticed that
> I cannot use the ctrl+alt+F? sequence to pop out of X since my upgrade
> to xorg 7.0. I'm assuming that ctrl+alt+backspace won't kill the server
> either.

This usually means your XKB is broken.

First, make sure you're on a recent sync and remerge xkeyboard-config
--oneshot. Next, try running setxkbmap to see what error messages you get:

# prints current layout -- should show a few lines of info
setxkbmap -print
# sets a new layout and model
setxkbmap -layout us -model pc105

Thanks,
Donnie