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After I installed my new keyboard, I discovered that pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn (where n is a number 1-12) keys no longer brings me to the tty screens (nothing happens), but sudo chvt 1 in the terminal emulator can start the tty. Meanwhile, Ctrl+Alt+F7 could bring me back to the x-window.

My keyboard is i-rocks IK6 (I didn't have such problem when using my old Logitech K120 keyboard)

How should I fix this problem? My system is Ubuntu 14.04 with Kernel 3.19.0-27-generic

Pablo Bianchi
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The i-rocks IK6 Crystal USB Keyboard has, what they call, a Windows and application keys disabled function.

The function is turned on and off using Fn + F11.

There is even a small Windows icon on the F11 key.

NZD
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I experienced a similar problem in my Dell Precision 5510 after a login loop that seems to happen due to a recent update of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I finally found that the ESC key has a small Fn icon attached so I combined this with the Fn key and the blockade was released. Ctrl+Alt+F1 worked now and I could log in from the console.ç

çI have to fix now the issue of the login loop... I'll try with the suggestions I already found here.

Miguel Martinez
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