From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 19:44:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915CF1065670 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2088FC08 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4OJiQ5g008690 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id q4OJiQ04008687 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:33:25 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20120524201132.e11d5a0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII ReSent-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:44:14 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: doug ReSent-To: questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch ReSent-Message-ID: ReSent-User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 24 May 2012 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@fledge.watson.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 19:44:27 -0000 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.