Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:57:59 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Richard Scheper <scheper@beast.toad.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup Message-ID: <v04011700b3bd344aec5f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199907221725.LAA02645@mt.sri.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907221259510.11734-100000@beast.toad.net> <199907221634.JAA51919@ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907221259510.11734-100000@beast.toad.net>
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At 11:25 AM -0600 7/22/99, Nate Williams wrote: >> Also, I don't understand why initializing xdm in /etc/ttys >> doesn't work since by then init should have executed getty >> on the appropriate ttvs. > > It *should* work. I'm not sure why it's not working, unless > there are no free ttys for it to work on. This probably doesn't help much, but I'm running xdm on my SMP system without any apparent trouble. I just turned the entry for XDM in '/etc/ttys' from off to on. Dual-PPro system, running 3.stable as of a little earlier this week. I built it JUST before the new XFree86 was released, so I don't have the latest XFree. I've run freebsd quite awhile without installing X. When I first installed and configured it, I tried to start it up by typing "X" instead of xdm. *That* locked up my system in a way that sounds somewhat like what is being suggested here. Typing at the keyboard did not do anything. I had to slogin from another machine, kill that X process, and then put my brain in gear to remember how I was SUPPOSED to startup X... I haven't done a lot with X on this system, but everything I've done has worked fine. I've rebooted it a few dozen times without it ever locking up. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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