VTs on F22 unusable!

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Thu Apr 30 13:48:22 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 09:08 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:34:40AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Just tried Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC1.iso
> > on lenovo X1 Carbon.
> 
> Which version of the X1 Carbon?
> 
> > I booted OK off liveusb, but then tried to switch to VT (Alt-Ctl
> > -F2).
> > There was a login prompt there somewhere, but the screen just went 
> > nuts 
> > flashing and was completely unusable.
> 
> Do you find anything in the logs?
> 
> > 
> > Alt-Ctrl-F1 got me back to graphic screen OK.  There was some 
> > message popped 
> > up about 'some problem', but it went away and I didn't know what 
> > to do with 
> > it (I don't use gnome - wish I could find a kde liveusb test).
> 
> Take a look in
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC1/Live/x86_64/
> 

F22 Beta on my machine (I run G3):

Alt-Ctrl-F3  =  fully functional text mode console
Alt-Ctrl-F2  =  Restore previous X session
Alt-Ctrl-F1  =  Create new X session

I was not prepared for this and got it sorted by accident. Alt-Ctrl-F2
for a console is going to be a tough habit to break. 

RBM



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