Questions about bug reporting

Christoph Brinkhaus c.brinkhaus at t-online.de
Sun Feb 15 18:18:22 UTC 2015


Dear all,

I have read somewhere about missing information in the
regarding switching between the console in section 4.2.1 
of the handbook. I took this as an oppertunity to become
comfortable with the bug tracking system. I have tried
to improve the documentation and filed a report.

This is out of the handbook and not changed:
The key combinations Alt+F1 through Alt+F8 have been reserved 
by FreeBSD for switching between virtual consoles. Use Alt+F1 
to switch to the system console (ttyv0), Alt+F2 to access the 
first virtual console (ttyv1), Alt+F3 to access the second 
virtual console (ttyv2), and so on.

I have added the part below:
Comming from the graphical environemt Ctrl+Alt+F1 through 
Ctrl+Alt+F8 switches to a virtual console. Press Alt+F9 to 
switch back to the graphical environment.

Now I have three questions.
1) The documentation applies for the use case with xdm 
configured on tty8 as in the table of section 4.2.1.
In case xdm is not activated the standard configuration 
foresees one additional console.
I think adding this information would overload the documentation.
Is the documentation and my add on ok?
This is related to the problem how detailed the 
documentation should be without blowing up everything.

2) I have generated my first bug report as
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197685
Is it ok as it is?
If something is wrong will somebody contact me or do I
have to check bugzilla from time to time?
Is it possible to interfer with somebodies work 
by filing a bug report? I do want to avoid any
negative emotions.

3) Is it good practice to take the user name of the 
FreeBSD forum for the bugzilla account or does it
not matter?

Thank you for your time!

Kind regards,

Christoph


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