CTRL+C and CTRL+ALT+F1 works, if I press CTRL+ALT+F2 login with username and password and startx to Gnome, then CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F2 again, I get a vt screen, I had to press CTRL+C and re-login to Gnome.Can you start Xorg only? Type X, go back to vt CLI with ctrl-alt-f1 and break Xorg with ctrl-C