Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:09:34 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: List of open Problem Reports Message-ID: <199503211909.UAA06326@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199503211604.CAA19879@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 02:04:37 am
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >> How is it supposed work when there are only 4 vtys with gettys on them > >> all? It worked like I expected for this setup with an old version of > >> XFree, the SVGA server and an ET4000 - `m' didn't exist and Alt-Fn > >> restored the X screen. Btw, i never understood what it's good for to have the X server run on an otherwise unused vty. It's SysVish however, and we all use the SysV VT model for our X server. Perhaps in SysV, it wouldn't even work on the same VT, i'm not sure. > >Er, if you have 4 vty's, (Alt-F1->Alt-F4), all with gettys, then you > >_should_ be able to get the X session back on vty04 (Alt-F5). If not, then > >the bug still exists for you. Remember 2 things; 1- the number of virtual > > I just hit Alt-F4 and it worked. I didn't even think of trying Alt-F5 > at the time, and don't have that configuration any more to try it. I think this has been a bug in the X server implementation in one earlier XFree86 version. I remember such complaints in the xfree-beta list. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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