From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 21 11:23:29 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00547 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:23:29 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00532 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:22:50 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23843; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:22:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA06848 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:22:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA06326 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:09:35 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503211909.UAA06326@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: List of open Problem Reports To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:09:34 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199503211604.CAA19879@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 02:04:37 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1178 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)