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

[Statux]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 17:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> 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

That did the trick.

However, I did get the following output during both commands:

Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property

But this didn't seem to hinder my progress so it may be nothing.

>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>

Thanks!

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