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From: kbrown@usceast.cs.sc.edu (Kevin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: swapping tty's
Date: 26 Jul 1995 10:26:35 -0400
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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This may be common knowledge, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ...

How do you swap from X back to the original text-based tty's on NetBSD
1.0?  I've seen that alt-F1 or alt-F2 is supposed to work on FreeBSD,
and ctrl-alt-F6 works on Linux, but neither seems to work on NetBSD.
Also, on Linux, you can configure several of these text-based tty's and
swap between them - is this possible on NetBSD?

I've got a kernel bug that crashes the system (my own doing I'm sure)
but I'm trapped in X when it happens - so I can't get back to the kernel
debugger.  I can't stand to stay out of X waiting for it to happen, so
any help would be much appreciated.

Oh, yeah, how do you swap back to X again from the text based tty?

Thanks,

Kevin Brown					 kbrown@cs.sc.edu