Can No Longer Get To Virtual Consoles After -STABLE Update

[Norberto Meijome]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:11 -0500
Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> I have been happily running 6.2-STABLE w/xorg 7.2 for some time now.
> Last Friday I promoted the sources to the latest version of 6.2-STABLE,
> did mergemaster -i, and built world and a new SMP kernel.  Everything
> works as before after I rebooted *except* I can no longer use Alt-Ctrl #
> to get to the text consoles if X is running.  If I disable X, it works
> fine, but somehow X now seems to ignore these keys.  I did not upgrade
> anything other than the FreeBSD sources theselves, BTW.

Look for some threads in this list about ALT key and alternative keyboadd maps not working after the upgrade. There is a suuposed fiex, but I haven't tested it yet.
B

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