Re: ctrl-alt-f1 closes X

From: Chris Babstock (chris2_at_cs.mun.ca)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:29:23 GMT

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:35:50 -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 01:50:41 GMT, Chris Babstock
> <chris2@cs.mun.ca> wrote:
>> The problem i'm having here is that when I want to switch to a text
>> console, I press ctrl-alt-f1, and I usually get my prompt.. however, this
>> also causes X to close and bring me back to my GDM login prompt, and
>> closes all processes that were running from inside X. Does anybody have
>> any idea why this is happening?
>
> What version of X? What video card? What distro?

xfree version 4.3.0-r3, some exotic intel i810 based card in my dell
inspiron 1100, and gentoo version 1.4

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