From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 8:49:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E0937B4CF for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tellurian.com (unverified [208.59.162.242]) by gate.tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:47:08 -0400 Message-ID: <39EF17E0.FACC2790@tellurian.com> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:48:48 -0400 From: Marko Ruban X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Harnick-Shapiro Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost X when I ran virtual terminal References: <200010190409.VAA19249@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check /etc/ttys file to see which terminal your xterm runs on. Mine runs on ttyv3 (ctrl+alt+F4). Or maybe your "experimentation" included something that disabled xdm ? David Harnick-Shapiro wrote: > OK, I'm an idiot. I hit ctl-alt-F2, my X session got hidden, and > ttyv1 popped up -- all good. I finished my little experimentation... > and I can't get back to X. When I hit alt-F1, I just see the text > that gets spewed by the X server before it takes over, things like > > (--) SVGA: RIVA 128: Using hardware cursor > > BTW, I log in in text mode, and start X with xstart. > > I *promise* I looked before asking here (lynx to the handbook, the > pcvt and screen man pages), but I couldn't find an answer: is there > a way to make the X server come back? > > David H-S > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message