On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 13:46:08 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. > > On my Sid, I can go to the console from X by means of, e.g., > Control-Alt-F2. This has been the behaviour of X for ages. > > Also for ages, you could go back to X by pressing Alt-F7. However, > in Sid nowadays, this does not work. Pressing Alt-F7 simply kills > X, and all programs running in it. You stay in the console, and > have to restart X by means of startx.
X crashing when switching back from the console is most commonly caused by a problem with the video driver. There should be some related error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or in /var/log/syslog. (Switching back and forth between X and console works fine for me; up-to-date Sid/amd64, intel driver.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
