Re: Alt+Fn isn't functional. Has this been removed?

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:02:37 -0700
Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:

> I just poured the dist files onto an earlier 15 (after removing
> the earlier version). After booting into the new install, I no longer
> had any other tty's other than ttyv0. Alt+Fn has no affect, I'm only
> getting ttyv0. getty(8) is running, and a ps waux | grep getty shows
> they're all up. Only things I saved from the older install were the
> user/group databases, rc.conf,pf.conf,jail.conf, and wpa_supplicant.conf.
> 
> What do I need to do to further isolate this problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> System info:
> 
> FreeBSD fbsd15 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #0 
> main-n268793-220ee18f1964:
> Thu Mar 14 02:58:39 UTC 2024
> root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
> 
> CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1215U (2496.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
> 
> IdeaPad 3 17IAU7
> 
> Id Refs Address                Size Name
>   1   95 0xffffffff80200000  1d527c0 kernel
>   2    1 0xffffffff81f54000    287e8 fusefs.ko
>   3    1 0xffffffff82d8f000   1e3228 i915kms.ko
>   4    2 0xffffffff82f73000    85090 drm.ko
>   5    1 0xffffffff82ff9000     22b8 iic.ko
>   6    2 0xffffffff82ffc000     40e9 linuxkpi_video.ko
>   7    3 0xffffffff83001000     7358 dmabuf.ko
>   8    3 0xffffffff83009000     3378 lindebugfs.ko
>   9    1 0xffffffff8300d000     c338 ttm.ko
> 10    1 0xffffffff8301a000     5760 cuse.ko
> 11    1 0xffffffff83020000     3390 acpi_wmi.ko
> 12    1 0xffffffff83024000     4250 ichsmb.ko
> 13    1 0xffffffff83029000     2178 smbus.ko
> 14    1 0xffffffff8302c000    91260 if_iwlwifi.ko
> 15    1 0xffffffff830be000     5f90 ig4.ko
> 16    1 0xffffffff830c4000     4d20 ng_ubt.ko
> 17    3 0xffffffff830c9000     bbb8 netgraph.ko
> 18    2 0xffffffff830d5000     a250 ng_hci.ko
> 19    2 0xffffffff830e0000     2670 ng_bluetooth.ko
> 20    1 0xffffffff830e3000     3218 iichid.ko
> 21    5 0xffffffff830e7000     3380 hidbus.ko
> 22    1 0xffffffff830eb000     21e8 hms.ko
> 23    1 0xffffffff830ee000     40a8 hidmap.ko
> 24    1 0xffffffff830f3000     3355 hmt.ko
> 25    1 0xffffffff830f7000     22cc hconf.ko
> 26    1 0xffffffff830fa000     2260 pflog.ko
> 27    1 0xffffffff830fd000    56540 pf.ko
> 28    1 0xffffffff83154000     3560 fdescfs.ko

Are you sure your function keys are actually function keys?
Not sure your IdeaPad is, but some Lenovo notebooks are configured
function keys as special (mute, radio,...) keys by default and needs to
configure in UEFI firmware to switch to function keys.
If it's the case, Fn+Alt+F2 would switch to vty1.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>