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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:24:00 -0600
From: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Subject: Re: Loss of vty access when switching into X
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Prisoner wrote:
> 
> I have noted a problem with 3 different machines (a 486/80, a 586/100,
> and a 586/133) and 3 versions of FreeBSD (2.1.0, 3.0-snap, and 2.1.6).
> Sometimes when switching from a virtual console into X, attempts to
> switch back to a virtual console (ctrl-alt-Fn) will result in just a beep
> from the console.  This seems most prevalent if an attempt is quickly
> made to switch back (ie, I didn't mean to switch into X, said "d'oh!" and
> hit ctrl-alt-F1).
> 
>    The problem has surfaced with both XFree86 and Accelerated X.
> 
>    Has this happened to anyone else, and/or is there a fix?
> 
>    Nick


This started happening to me when I started using Xaccel in 3.0-current.
I switched from using /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyd0 and it seemed to stop
behaving that way.  At least it hasn't since I've done it (nearly a 
month and a half ago).  


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