[CTRL]+[ALT]+[Fi] on 2.10

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:26:49 +0100 (CET)
> From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root at pukruppa.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, James Earl wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:07:24 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> > <root at pukruppa.net> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> for some time now I can't access the text console via
> >> [CTRL]+[ALT]+[Fi] anymore.
> >> Does anyone else see this,
> >>    and if yes: is this an issue with gnome2.10 or xorg?
> >>      or did I miss something?
> >>
> >> My # uname -a is
> >>
> >> 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 14 17:06:34 CET
> >> 2005     root at pukruppa.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMALL  i386
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Uli.
> >
> > Did you by chance, buy a new keyboard recently?
> No, but from your answer I assume that switching to console still 
> works and I have to study fine manuals what went wrong with my 
> german keyboard setup (frequent problem after gnome upgrades :-( 

This is a long shot, but...

On one system of mine, the mapping of the swap of CTRL and CapsLock
stopped working. Are you swapping them? I went into
Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard and selected "Layout Options"->"Control
Key Position" to fix this. Then I could get back to the vtys again.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634