On May 16 at 22:47, mickb spoke: > A few days ago I posted a question here about how I could start X and it was > ok, then A-C-Fn to another tty,ie, a command line, then A-C-F9 (on FreeBSD > 4.5) back to X and the screen was garbled. The same thing is happening on > different hardware using out-of-the-box redhat 7.3. On FreeBSD X is usually running on the ninth console. But that may be different on different systems. Some Linux run X on the seventh console. Try other combinations of A-C-Fn. -Hanspeter