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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:46:01 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Richard Scheper <scheper@beast.toad.net>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup 
Message-ID:  <199907221246.VAA18075@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:31:47 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907220813040.25064-100000@beast.toad.net> 
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907220813040.25064-100000@beast.toad.net> 

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>I'm having a slight problem with my current setup, and the solution is
>eluding me. I've got a supermicro P6DLS with 2 PII-266 processors. I'm
>running 3.1-RELEASE. 
[...]
>Heres my problem. I have an rc.local which starts up xdm, i.e.
>
>/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
>
>which starts up the xdm login screen. However, at this point the keyboard
>input is locked out. Absolutely no key sequences have any effect. All else
>appears to work, i.e. the mouse still functions. I've experimented with
>this and have gathered the following clues:
>
>1. xdm works fine if SMP is disabled in the kernel
>
>2. SMP works fine if xdm is not started in rc.local or in /etc/ttys
>
>3. SMP and xdm work fine if xdm is started under a root login session.
>
>4. the keyboard lockup only occurs after the rc.local script is finished
>   executing. That is, if I put a sleep 60 command after the xdm command
>   in rc.local, the login screen accepts my input and starts X, and
>   everything is fine for exactly one minute at which time the keyboard
>   locks.
>
>5. sleep commands before the xdm command in rc.local have no effect - 
>   lockup still occurs.

It appears that xdm and getty is fighting for keyboard input.  Try

	(sleep 60; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm) &

in /etc/rc.local.

Kazu


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