Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:43:28 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: splash screen & xdm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116004016.476A-100000@henny.plazza.it> In-Reply-To: <199901151654.IAA00940@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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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