On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:47:29AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > for example), no text is displayed. It looks as if the monitor is not > > switched back to text mode or is in an invalid frequency range, because I > > see some lines moving everywhere on the screen but no text. However, I can > > type commands and they are executed (I know because, for example, I can > > "shutdown -r now") but I have no idea why I can't see the text... And I can > > switch back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 just fine. > > > > [snip] > > I brought this one up here a few weeks ago, and someone pointed out that > the problem seems to be related to xmodmap. I'm not sure if it is all > .xmodmap files or just the one I have, but in my case either I do > without xmodmap, or I can't switch to text terminals (and can't exit X > with Crtl-Alt-Del). If you look back in the archive a few weeks ago you > will see the thread. > > Anthony
Same here, I had the same problem, culdn switch back to console, the problem lasted for quite a while because I thought it was due to dropping the ati binary driver. Until one day that my wife complained about having to read her email in mutt, and I opned an account for her, with mozilla mail. Then I noticed that from her account I could switch back to console. The only difference seemed to be an xmodmap that I loaded at login ... It got me to experiment with xmodmap. I can tell you the following: Now I load xmodmap, but one that uses no key modification, the only keys that I miss are questiondown (¿), exclamdown (¡) and gillemots («,»). But the trade so far is fine: I can get back to console, which is very important for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
