--- Justin Dugger wrote:
On a side note: Debian 3.0 stable? You're quite accomplished to keep that up to date with the kernel. I'd take jclinton's advice and see what that kernel option fixes. It also might be time to consider an upgrade to sarge.
That one slipped by me. After all debian stable is now "sarge" (aka Debian 3.1). I'm currently running stable/testing. I'd prefer to run testing/unstable but I need certain functionality in OpenOffice that isn't possible in testing or unstable, unless I make my own debs. Which I suspect I will need to do sooner or later. I'm pushing for as later as I can.
Also, Ubuntu does something to the base x.org config that turns the control-alt-fn back on. By default the debian package shuts it off. I'm running a bare metal debian, because of other issues. which is a bit of a pain because I like the "commercial" releases because they don't go in for all the purist bs that debian does (read desktop functionality). So your confirming that x.org works fine for you doesn't apply to anything but the Ubuntu distribution. All this freedom of choice stuff gets in the way of basic system support. But I don't have any better answers than anyone else.
Brian JD