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From: Erik Osterholm <erik+freebsd@cepheid.org>
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Subject: Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty 
> screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
> I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my 
> system? It seems to happen when running both kde & twm, so it's not window 
> manger related.
> 
> I'm running 5.4-RELEASE and Xorg6.9 built from ports about a week ago. All 
> ports up to date as of 3 nights ago.
> 
> Cheers,

For starters, isn't it usually Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc? 

Second, there's an option in your xorg.conf file for "DontVTSwitch".
Could that have accidentally been turned on?

man xorg.conf

Erik