[TriLUG] How to get to text terminal when Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't work?

bick via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Sat Dec 15 14:05:38 EST 2018


Do any three-key combos work?  Perhaps it is a keyboard limitation.  Someone posted your exact issue in the forum about a month ago, but it didn't look like it went anywhere: https://support.pi-top.com/en/support/discussions/topics/24000008445

On December 15, 2018 11:10:45 AM CST, Nathan Yinger via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>I recently got a Pi-Top. Obviously, when I booted it up, the first
>thing I
>did was hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to do to the text console...and nothing
>happened.
>Plugging in another keyboard and hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the other
>keyboard
>works, but not with the built-in keyboard. The Ctrl, Alt, and Fn keys
>all
>work normally, except when trying to get to the text console.
>
>Any idea what could cause that, or another way to get to the text
>console?
>chvt can change to a text terminal, but it only works if you are
>already in
>a text terminal. loadkeys is supposed to be able to change the
>shortcut,
>but that can only be run from a text terminal...
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