This, no response on Ctrl-Alt-F1, happens as well when you kill the X
server (because it is somehow stuck) so that the login prompt of xdm
appears again. 

So I bet it has something to do with and is either located in syscons or
in X.

Nick


 > > It seems that if the splash screen image is not cleared (ie: press any
 > > key) before xdm starts up then once logged in the user is unable to
 > > switch to a vitual terminal (ie: ctrl-alt-f1 etc), and it just beeps
 > > when those keys are pressed. 
 > > Solution? Putting the command kldunload splash_bmp before the line that
 > > loads xdm seems to work. Is this a bug or just the way things are?
 > 
 > It's arguably a bug - the splash should be cleared before the vty 
 > switch that X makes.
 > 
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