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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.pgh.net!usenet From: Jim Durham <durham> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual Terminals vanish w/XF86 Date: 21 Sep 1995 02:33:37 GMT Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <43qiu1$9ij@dropit.pgh.net> References: <435o2s$335@dropit.pgh.net> <43g1kg$gri@luss.is.ge.com> <43lp4k$s6g@times.tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:43lp4k$s6g@times.tfs.com julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) wrote: >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.. > I also posted about this earlier, but I'm not sure the article ever made it the the newsgroup. I have two systems, a 386DX25 with vga and a 486-DX33 with a Diamond Speedstar SVGA. I was running 1.1.5.1 and XF86 on the 386 with no problems. I installed 2.0.5 on both systems. On the '386, the virtual terminals vanish when you start XF86. You get a blank screen, which will show some disk activity if you type something on the keyboard. XF86 and Netscape both run fine on both systems. You can get back to X from the blank screen on the '386 with Alt-Fx and you can get back to the blank screen with Ctl-Alt-F1 . So, there appears to be a real problem. I'm very used to typing ctl-alt-Fx to get from X to a virtual terminal and did it for a year with 1.1.5.1, so it's not something that simple. If you kill X, the virtual terminals do not re-appear. Your only recourse is to do a hard reboot. Regards, Jim Durham > > -- -Jim Durham