ttys not working from xdm

[John Holland]

That fixed it. Thanks!
On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Trond Endrestøl <Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:42-0500, John Holland wrote:
> 
>> I have a new install of 10.1 and I am unable to access ttys from 
>> xdm. When I press Alt-F3 or Ctrl-Alt-F3 instead it causes either the 
>> mouse, keyboard or entire X session to lock up. Here is the section 
>> of my /etc/ttys - any advice on troubleshooting this would be 
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root password
>> # when going to single-user mode.
>> console none                            unknown off secure
>> #
>> ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> # Virtual terminals
>> ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv4   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv5   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv6   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         xterm   on  secure
>> ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure
>> # Serial terminals
> 
> You are probably missing the VT console in the kernel, set 
> kern.vty="vt" in /boot/loader.conf. This should be augmented by KMS 
> drivers for your GPU. If you don't have an accelerated GPU like nVidia 
> or AMD/ATI, then you're out of luck.
> 
> When you press Ctrl+Alt+F3, you are switched to ttyv2, it just doesn't 
> show up. You're looking at a ghost image of the X display. You can 
> type blindly, but that's not what anyone would want.
> 
> Hit Alt+F9 to get back to the X server.
> 
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