Re: CentOS 4.2 problem switching from GUI to Character Screen using CTL-ALT-F1 in VMWare
- From: Matt Payton <mattpayton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:02 GMT
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:45:35 -0500, Brian Keener wrote:
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.
In VMWare, the CTRL-ALT key combination is considered a "hot key".
Meaning, once you hit that key combination, the key strokes may not be
passed directly on to the virtual machine.
Try changing the hot key combination... On VMWare Workstation 5.x, go to
the edit menu, preferences, Hot Keys tab.
Change it to something else, besides the default of CTRL-ALT. You'll
have to restart the vm after making the change.
Then, after restarting it, try switching from x to a different vty.
Also, did you load the vmware tools in the virtual machine ? If not, I'd
suggest doing that as well.
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