Console switching

[Lukas Sabota]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 15:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:32 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:22 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> > 
> > >> That's normal, does Alt-Fn work once you've got to a getty?
> > > 
> > > Yes, it does.
> > 
> > Take a look at this:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17921#c6
> > 
> > if you do:
> > $ sudo apt-get -d install xkeyboard-config
> > $ sudo dpkg -i --force-confmiss  \
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/xkeyboard-config<TAB complete latest>.deb
> > 
> > It might fix it. I think this will scrub out any custom configuration
> > you've done, so you might prefer to examine and fix the xkeyboard
> > configuration instead.
> > 
> > That bug also mentions an xorg.conf issue to do with the framebuffer device.
> 
> That fixed the problem, thanks!
> 
> I definitely never customized any of these settings, except once when I
> had to use System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->"Reset to Defaults"
> to work around another bug - that probably introduced the problem.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Lee
> 

I also had this problem.  This is a transitional problem from
breezy-dapper.  

God bless,
Lukas