Re: After upgrade to 14.2, I cannot go from X to a virtual console

Reply: Roderick : "Re: After upgrade to 14.2, I cannot go from X to a virtual console"
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From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh_at_panix.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:15:35 UTC

On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:38:53PM +0000, Roderick wrote:

>I normally boot in a virtual console and start X after login as normal user
>(Xorg with +s permission). And this was successful.
>
>The problem is that I cannot get back to the console, neither with
>Control-Alt-F1
>nor with terminating X. When I do it, I end with a black screen.

It might be a known bug: switching between VT terminals disables 
hardware acceleration.  That's described in two bug reports, 267915 and 
271995.

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267915>
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271995>