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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:05:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help!!! X11 Console problems FBSD4.1.1/XFree 4.0.1_1
Message-ID:  <14811.61431.509836.381699@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <133568638@toto.iv>

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O. Hartmann writes:
> Since I compiled XFree86 4.0.1_1 from the sources offered in 
> the ports-collection, I have a very severe problem:
> Prior to this "update" I could change from graphical display
> to console by Ctrl-Alt-F9 (I use vt as console driver because
> many clients have to much problems in coming along with the
> pc console). Now this do not work anymore! I changed nothing to
> my configuration except I changed the mouese protocol which
> caused errors and left mouse in unusable state when using "PS/2" as
> protocol. When now the Ctrl-Alt-F9 keys are hit, I get a funny
> coloured screen - but I do not get a console! How can I fix that?
> What happened to the code? What are the changes in compilation?

F9? Wierd number. Are you sure you're not going from the console back
to X? If that's the case, try Ctrl-Alt-F1. I believe XFree86-4 changed
to use the virtual console it was started from (or F1, but I never
start it from anything else). If you're going from X to a console, try
Ctrl-Alt-F2.

	<mike


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