From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 18:45:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14874 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:45:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14823 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:44:44 GMT (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id LAA01717; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:44:28 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980414114428.60327@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:44:28 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Andreas Dobloug Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm/Xservers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Andreas Dobloug on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 03:13:09AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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