From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 20:08:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10729 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA10720 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA19573 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:10:51 -0400 Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca(142.206.128.146) by stcgate via smap (V1.3) id sma019556; Fri Aug 22 03:10:31 1997 Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA23580; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:09:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:06:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays X-Sender: jeays@austral To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XDM troubles Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I can run XDM successfully the 'deprecated' way, by putting the call in /etc/ttys. But when I call it from /etc/rc.local, the login screen appears, but it won't accept any keystrokes, not even the CTRL-ALT-F1 etc combinations. I do have a 'sleep 2' call after the XDM call, as recommended recently in this list. Can anyone use XSM successfully? Others have reported that it doesn't work, and it certainly dumps core on my machine. Why is there a call to it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession if it doesn't work? Any clues would be much appreciated!