I’m using openSUSE 11.1 with Gnome on Dell Latitude D520. Been using
Suse and openSUSE for some years now and was always able to get virtual
terminals with ctrl+alt+F1, ctrl+alt+F2 etc. This doesn’t work for me
with 11.1 though. Is there something I need to do to activate these
now? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks
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I’m having the same issue, even at the login screen.
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I do not have 11.1 running myself, but these virtual terminals are run
by statements in /etc/inittab. You could check if they are there:
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Many thanks hcw for your reply. The lines were there in /etc/inittab :
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
But I’m still having the same problem. If you have any further
thoughts I’d be most grateful.
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But do they run? Check with ps.
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Thanks hcvv. The processes are running according to ps. Do you think
it’s possible the keyboard shortcuts are to blame, that they’ve been
taken up by something else? I can’t see anything in the Gnome keyboard
shortcuts that uses these combinations though and the key combinations
don’t seem to do anything at all.
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You got my intention. First I wanted tyo be sure that from the system
side the config is OK and that the processes are running.
My conclusion is now the same a yours. The CTRL-ALT-Fx keys are for
some reason not functioning as desired. Now I am not a Gnome user, so
helping you from here might be better done by someone else.
The only thing that comes to my mind now for a test is
CNTRL-ALT-BackSpace as that should stop your X-session and restart it.
Also, when you have KDE installed, try running KDE and test it there.
When you don’t have KDE installed it is probably not worth to do the
installation (however it is very easy) at this moment where we still may
hope someone sheds light on this from the Gnome side.
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I have the same problem - not working ctrl+alt+Fn and ctrl+alt+F1 in
KDE, nor in Gnome.
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Now it works!?! I installed KDE 4 and tried it with that. At first
ctrl+alt+F1-F4 changed the desktop (1-4 respectively) and I couldn’t get
the virtual terminals with any of the normal shortcuts. However this
morning I booted up into KDE and ctrl+alt+F1 etc gave me the virtual
terminals! I rebooted into Gnome and the virtual terminals now come up
as they always did. I have no idea what has happened. I haven’t
installed any updates and haven’t done anything as far as I know. If
anyone is having the same problem try installing KDE 4 (KDE4 Desktop
Environment and KDE4 Base System in the Patterns section of YaST
Software Manager. Boot into KDE4 and if it doesn’t work reboot into
KDE4 once more (I can’t remember if I did this twice or once). Maybe
installing KDE4 and booting alters some configuration file somewhere?
Thanks to hcvv for your replies.
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I was just about to create a new post for this. I have the same issue
with KDE4 and I have the latest Beta. Basically ctrl+alt+f1 gets me to
the framebuffer console vie (I can see all the services started at boot)
but gives me no login, and the rest (f2-f6) give me a blank screen. I
can telinit from a konsole shell or use konsole for most things, but
it’s a big problem when something like a nvidia driver upgrade goes
foul, I can’t switch to konsole to fix it. Last time I had to load a
system rescue cd, mount the partition and change the xorg file
manually…:\
I hope someone can give me a more detailed idea of how to solve it,
because installing kde4 certainly isn’t the answer 
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Glad it works for you. But I am with solphonic that this is not a very
satisfying solution.
@solphonic, I suggest you post in the Pre-realease/Beta forum.
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I do agree, it’s not a good solution. And now that I’ve turned my
computer on again, I’m back to square one: no virtual terminals!
Something worked when I turned the computer on this morning that is not
working now. I’m afraid this seems to be beyond my capabilities. I’d
be grateful if a thread is started elsewhere that you could flag that
here so that I and others can follow it.
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Hi all.
I too confirm that in 11.1 Gnome I don’t have the Ctrl+Alt+<key>
functionalities: neither the virtual terminals nor the X restart through
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
That’s an annoying issue!
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