Re: xorg vt switching on thinkpad x41

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:57 32AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> bch%methodlogic.net@localhost wrote:
> 
>> Are you sure the 5th VT is where X is running?
> 
> I'm not sure at all. :-)  But this is a vanilla NetBSD install without
> any modifications on my part (other than generating the X config and
> enabling ttys), and for ages it used to be on the 5th VT.
> 
> Anyway, I can't get X back on *any* VT.  I can switch to the others (and
> find them on 1,2,3 and 4), but going to VT5 the screen resets (as if it
> was switching to X), but then blanks.

Is X still running?  If you log in on another text console, does 'ps' output 
look right?  What happens if you do a suspend/resume?

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb