fc22-tc2 VTs unusable

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu May 7 18:16:42 UTC 2015


Dan Mossor wrote:

> On 05/07/2015 12:37 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> This is a new Lenovo X1 Carbon (v3).
>>
>> I booted up
>> Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-22-TC2.iso
>>
>> It boots OK, but on switching to VT (alt-ctrl-f2), the screen starts
>> flashing and is unusable.
>>
>> The video is
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U
>> Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Don't the X1 systems have the function keys remapped in BIOS to actual
> functions, as opposed to F1-12? IIRC, there's either a setting in the
> firmware or a (soft) switch on the keyboard somewhere to turn this off.
> 
> Dan
> 

I don't think I explained this well.  I can get a VT by hitting alt-ctrl-f2, 
for example, but it is not usable.  I can see there is a login prompt, but 
the screen is going nuts flashing - the video is all screwed up.

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