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

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

Nathan Yinger via TriLUG wrote on 12/15/2018 12:10 PM:
> 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.

Pi-Top must not be running virtual terminals, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console.  Not
sure what flavor of linux the pi-top uses but I'd start looking for how to start/setup virtual
terminals.

--[Lance]