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No Ctrl-Alt-F1 X-win to console prompt

  • 1.  No Ctrl-Alt-F1 X-win to console prompt

    Posted Oct 05, 2011 08:10 AM

    I have a Virtual host machine VMware ESXi 4.0u01 with amongs others a FreeBSD 8.2 machine with X (via KDM window manager)

    So far I always could connect via vSphere Client to this host, which gave me a KDE login window, and I could do

    Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to an ASCII console  (login: prompt)

    This week, a security patch was applied to FreeBSD

    after reboot, KDE login window came up, but none of the  Ctrl-Alt-F1, ... F8 works anymore

    (i could login via Keyboard and mouse in a graphical evironment)

    Someone suggested try  Ctrl-Alt-SPACE, then release SPACE with holding Ctrl-Alt en press F1, which should

    be something special of vmware (?)

    But, this had the result that neither keyboard nor mouse reacts.

    Leavind vSphere and conecting again gives me a BLACK screen, with no reaction to keyboard nor mous

    How to solve this ???