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Can not get out of tty1 to go back to tty7 or others

Asked by Steve Sauls

If you hit ctrl-alt-f1 to go to a virtual terminal it seems to kill everything. After doing this you no longer have access to anything except tty1. You cant go to tty2 or any other virtual console.

My laptop had all hardware automatically detected. There are not 3rd party drivers running or detected. It detected graphics and wifi on boot from the install cd.

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Steve Sauls (steve.sauls) said : 		#1

I am running a new Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 if it doesn't works please reboot your system... type:

sudo reboot

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

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Steve Sauls (steve.sauls) said : 		#3

On 11/6/2010 6:01 PM, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:
> Your question #132876 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/132876
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 if it doesn't works please reboot your system... type:
>
> sudo reboot
>
> give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you
> type it, then press enter.
>
 I already knew that but you are not supposed to need to do that. Should
I file this as a bug?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please tell the graphic card you have...

lspci | grep -i vga

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/529882

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Steve Sauls (steve.sauls) said : 		#6

This is embarrassing but I am going to admit it anyway.

On my "new" laptop. A Compaq Presario CQ62 the function keys f2 thru f12 require that "fn" be depressed. So my key sequence is "ctrl + fn + alt + f?", depending on which tty you want to switch to.

So, this was my fault but I am happy to report that Ubuntu 10.10 really is the "Perfect 10"!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the help.