From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 26 19:51:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA24889 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:51:45 -0800 Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA24884 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:51:41 -0800 Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA02822; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:51:23 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id VAA21120; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:52:12 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511270352.VAA21120@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 21:52:09 CST Cc: maral@webnet.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511260530.QAA12774@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 26, 95 04:30:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1026 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I always start it from /etc/rc.local (and haven't had any problems > as a consequence). I have the following in /etc/rc.local: > > if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config ]; then > echo -n ' xdm' > # Delay to allow the fontserver to come up > (sleep 5; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config)& > fi Same here.... so this was an unexpected treat :-) > Perhaps running 'kbd_mode -u' will put it into the correct mode for X, > and 'kbd_mode -a' for text mode? I've never needed to use this though. And here I thought that was a Sun-ism! Okay, I will try that next time I get a chance. But it seems to be something deeper in syscons and/or my hardware setup, because the keyboard actually stops responding until poked and prodded to death... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847