X on Xterminals but not on console

n dhert ndhertbsd at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 09:51:24 UTC 2011


I tried that already yesterday, with disastreous results: keyboard and mouse
completely locked.
Closed vsphere and started again, connect to freebsd machine: black window,
no reaction to any keyboard of
mouse ..

2011/10/6 Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>

> El día Thursday, October 06, 2011 a las 11:04:33AM +0200, n dhert escribió:
>
> > It is not so clear ..  My problem is:
> >
> > My FreeBSD is a VMware Virtual machine, for 2 years.
> > When connecting to that machine via vSphere client, I get a KDM
> > login window and via Ctrl-Alt-F1  can switch to a console prompt
> > Well, that *was* possible ..
> >
> > Since the last reboot, Ctrl-Alt-F1 (F2, .. F8) doesn't do anything
> > anymore...
> > Can't understand why, it always worked in the past?
>
> Try:
>
> Ctrl-Alt-SPACE and while Ctrl-ALt still down F1
>
>        matthias
>
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