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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Terminals vanish w/XF86
Date: 19 Sep 1995 06:48:52 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <43g1kg$gri@luss.is.ge.com>, James Smithson  <jrs@is.ge.com> wrote:
>I did not upgrade but started with 2.0.5 from the CD.
>I do notice that I cannot get between the virtual terminals (the screens you switch between
>when pushing ALT-SysReq ALT-F[1-3] once you've started X with xinit.

firstly, what's sysreq got to do with it??
alt fx does the job when not in X11
from X11 you need Alt-CTL-Fx, as X11 is more liekly to already use alt-Fx..

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