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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:10:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@bns.com.au>
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Subject: Re: xdm disallowing keyboard input
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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> I'm trying to get xdm working on my 2.2-REL..added it to the end of 
> rc.local in the form "xdm", and it seems to start the X server fine when 
> I boot, I get a login window as I should, but it does not let me enter 
> anything from the keyboard..all I can do is ctrl-alt-del and reboot.
> 
> At the end of the xdm.errors file (after the X startup output) is the 
> following:
> 
> xdm error (pid 151): Unknown session exit code 256 from process 155
> xdm info (pid 151): Rescanning both config and servers files
> xf86CloseConsole: KDDISABIO failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> Can anyone help shed some light onto this problem?

Please supply some more info, specificaly, the contents of your xdm 
config files might be valuable. Note that if you start xdm from rc.local, 
you *must* tell the X server what virtual console to use!

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kris
> 
> || ,-./\ Kris Kennaway || "Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.   ||
> ||/     \              ||  Dead. Dead. Dead. How can you apologize to them?" ||
> ||\_,-*_/ kkenn@       || "I..can't" "Then how can I forgive?"               ||
> ||     v    bns.com.au || - G'Kar and Vir, "Comes the Inquisitor", Babylon 5 ||
> 
Nadav