From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 15: 3: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAFAF37B58E for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA16001; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:02:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:02:46 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies Message-ID: <20000605180246.B15463@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <393C1A2A.D9760FA3@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: David Banning's message [after firing up X - text screen dies] as of Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:22:50PM -0400 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jun 05, David Banning wrote: > After I fire up X I can't Ctrl-Alt-F1 back to the text standard shell. > My screen just turns off. > Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4 brings me back to X again - the screen slowly turns > on again > which shows that - I guess - Ctrl-Alt-F1 puts it into power saving > off-mode > > I had this before - I uninstalled XFree86 and re-installed and it was > fixed. > This time that won't work. > > I'm using version 3.4 FreeBSD with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE. Really? This is FreeBSD? I'd like you to send along a 'uname -a' and the contents of your /etc/ttys, --Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message