Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:34:37 -0400 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change back to the console when stucked by the desktop environment Message-ID: <1468751677.23217.10.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <578B4386.4080301@gmail.com> References: <201607161358.u6GDwTi1040789@fire.js.berklix.net> <578B4386.4080301@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 16:36 +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > Thanks, I just manage to install a proper desktop environment(Xfce) > to > use and it seems to work fine. > However, still, I cannot manage to do tty-switching using <Ctrl- > Alt><F_> > (<Alt-F_> didn't work either). Strangely, whenever I press > <Ctrl-Alt><F_>, the whole desktop block. I don't know why, it just > block > everytime I press <Ctrl-Alt><F_> ( the _ stand for number 1...8) > > My /etc/ttys file looks like this: > > console none unknown off secure > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure > . > . (the same ) > . > ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm-nodaemon" xterm off secure > > #serial terminal > ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure > . > . > ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 onifconsole secure > > #Dumb console > dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure > > Any idea? > > Thanks, > Ruan Maybe it could be KMS related? Try swithing the console driver from sc(4) to vt(4) by adding: kern.vty=vt to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting. Vt(4), also known as newcons is the UTF-8 and KMS friendly console driver. Vt(4) will be the console driver for 11.0 (r274085) but the older sc(4) is the default on 10.x.
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