F11: CTRL-ALT-F2 not working

[Alain Spineux]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Bill Davidsen<davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> Alain Spineux wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> when pressing CTRL-ALTF-F2 to switch to text console, the screen stay
>> in graphic mode, only the mouse cursor disappears.
>> I can blindly login, type some command; see the hard disk light blink
>> at each command, then go back using ALT-F1 and see I logged in on
>> tty2.
>> But switching between tty1 an tty2 never change my display.
>>
>> I have a Laptop Compaq Evo N610c with a ATI RADEON Mobility M7.
>> It was working fine with FC8.
>>
>> Any idea?
>
> By any chance are you doing this because your X session has stopped
> responding? The X server may have died, possibly due to driver issues. You
> don't say what release and kernel you run, there have been some recent FC11
> upgrades which seem to help on other hardware.

Yes and no ! Sometime because after a hibernate my display looks like
"encrypted", (but I can still guess my cursor and start programs) and
sometime I like the text console to work.

I will start a yum update to see.

Thanks

>
> You can do a ps command with X working and not working to see if the server
> has died. Someone can probably tell you how to restart it (other than
> reboot), my method makes people cringe and I won't share it, or even admit I
> do it. :-(
>
> A possibility, since you are inviting guesses by lack of detail in the
> question.
>
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