5/17/2002 4:54:13 AM, Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 >_______________________________________________ > >Newbie@XFree86.Org >*** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie I am curious, what was the answer to this question--I have had the same question. Again, the question seems to be: "Why is the screen garbled when I return to X from a console session?" thanks in advance freebsd-newbies