CentOS 4.2 problem switching from GUI to Character Screen using CTL-ALT-F1 in VMWare
- From: Brian Keener <bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:45:35 -0500
I have VMware loaded on a Windows 2000 machine with an ASUS 9200 Series video
card and as the guest OS I have loaded Cent OS 4.2. If I boot the CentOS guest
to a runlevel 5 so I get the GUI on vt7 I can login on that screen and all is
well but if I try to switch to vt1 by using the CTRL-ALT-F1 sequence it appears
that the system hangs. In fact I have discovered that I did change to vt1 but
the screen is still showing the GUI (which now appears hung). If I blindly try
to type a login and password and then change back to vt7 (which will now
function normally again) and do a ps -ef I can see that I did login on vt1 and
I can switch back to vt1 (still with only a hung GUI visible) and blindly type
a command and then switch back to vt7 and check the process stack and see the
command is running or I can if I used a command that could pause long enough.
If I boot the guest in runlevel 3 and then login via the character login and
then do a startx and try switching virtual terminals everything works fine and
I can swithc back and forth without a problem.
I have checked the xorg.conf file and it is using the VMWare SVGA driver as it
should be but this appears to be on the Character side - what or where do I
need to check to find this problem and resolve it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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