Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:44:28 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Andreas Dobloug <andreasd@ifi.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm/Xservers Message-ID: <19980414114428.60327@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <xnp1zv1434p.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>; from Andreas Dobloug on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 03:13:09AM %2B0200 References: <xnp1zv1434p.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 03:13:09AM +0200, Andreas Dobloug wrote: >Shouldn't the entry for the local console in Xservers read: > >:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 ttyv3 > >and not > >:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt03 > >(as stated in "The Complete FreeBSD 2.2.5" page 229) No. vt03 is an OS-independent Xserver command line option that means use VT or VC number 3, not the name of a device. It actually translates to /dev/ttyv2 on FreeBSD. It should be vt04 because ttyv3 is the fourth VC (and the one activated with the F4 key -- which is the common factor used to determine the mappings on different OSs). >This causes lockups exactly like the ones described in pr 3082. When >the lockup occurs, xconsole states that getty is having problems on >ttyv3 (even though /etc/ttys states that getty isn't enabled on ttyv3). > >System: >P133 >FBSD 2.2.5-stable David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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