Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 08:56:28 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Nick Casey <njcasey207@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handbook Section: 4.2.1 | Suggested Revision(s) Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1502010854480.23489@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAHVyMhC%2BLd3yj-62fHSGz%2B63m_%2BKo6AgQWaMWj8CaV8s446aSw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHVyMhC%2BLd3yj-62fHSGz%2B63m_%2BKo6AgQWaMWj8CaV8s446aSw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Nick Casey wrote: > Section 4.2.1, "Virtual Consoles", recommends using Alt+F# for accessing > the virtual consoles outlined by /etc/ttys. I found, using 10.1-RELEASE > with a generic AMD64 kernel and NVIDIA's GeForce 500 Series (non-notebook) > driver, that said advice is insufficient. Me and several others have found > that using Ctrl+Alt+F# is effective in this regard. My recollection is that the Ctrl+Alt combination is only needed while switching from X; for switching between different text-mode virtual consoles, just Alt+F# suffices. Which is not to say that the documentation should not be changed, of course. -Ben Kaduk
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