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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!gatech!usceast!usceast!not-for-mail From: kbrown@usceast.cs.sc.edu (Kevin Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: swapping tty's Date: 26 Jul 1995 10:26:35 -0400 Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3v5jar$27u@tupelo.cs.sc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tupelo.cs.sc.edu This may be common knowledge, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ... How do you swap from X back to the original text-based tty's on NetBSD 1.0? I've seen that alt-F1 or alt-F2 is supposed to work on FreeBSD, and ctrl-alt-F6 works on Linux, but neither seems to work on NetBSD. Also, on Linux, you can configure several of these text-based tty's and swap between them - is this possible on NetBSD? I've got a kernel bug that crashes the system (my own doing I'm sure) but I'm trapped in X when it happens - so I can't get back to the kernel debugger. I can't stand to stay out of X waiting for it to happen, so any help would be much appreciated. Oh, yeah, how do you swap back to X again from the text based tty? Thanks, Kevin Brown kbrown@cs.sc.edu