From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 9:34:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC7E37B620 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sky_tracker@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO yahoo.com) (216.191.74.240) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2000 08:57:57 -0700 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <393D1F43.A5A9799A@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:56:51 -0400 From: David Banning Organization: Sky-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG don't think thats it because alt and ctrl keys work fine in other functions, but i'll try a simple alt-f1 and then ctrl-f1 to see if i get a similar problem thanks Mike. Mike DeGraw-Bertsch wrote: > > I had a similar problem on my laptop--the Ctrl-Alt simulates the Function > key, and Function-F1 was suspend (or something like that). Are you on a > PC or a laptop? > > If you F-keys also substitute for suspend, etc, try creating extra > terminals, and Ctrl-Alt-F[unused key, such as F5 on my laptop]. > > Hope this helps, > -Mike > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, David Banning wrote: > > > After I fire up X I can't Ctrl-Alt-F1 back to the text standard shell. > > My screen just turns off. > > Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4 brings me back to X again - the screen slowly turns > > on again > > which shows that - I guess - Ctrl-Alt-F1 puts it into power saving > > off-mode > > > > I had this before - I uninstalled XFree86 and re-installed and it was > > fixed. > > This time that won't work. > > > > I'm using version 3.4 FreeBSD with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE. > > > > Also the graphics under KDE are exceptionally slow - don't know if that > > is related. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- µ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message