Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:33:25 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241514200.99230@fledge.watson.org> Resent-Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241544140.99230@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205240639590.1335@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> <20120524201132.e11d5a0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >>> >>> I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in >>> the water when stuck in x.org. >> >> Maybe putting >> >> Option "DontVTSwitch" "false" >> >> in Section "ServerFlags" or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? > > Of course not "or" - "of". Maybe it belongs to section > "ServerLayout", I'm not sure, it changes quite often > which options are supported and where they have to be > placed. :-) > > And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version > of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in > both directions). > > portdowngrade x11/xorg -s :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.tw.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs > > (Maybe you need to be more specific as "x11" is only a metaport.) That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one work alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google finds a few similar complaints.
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