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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        jedgar@fxp.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup
Message-ID:  <199907230451.VAA52884@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:32:09 -0700 (PDT))
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907230012350.13821-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com>

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I am runing 4.0 current SMP.

Some time back, we had the discussion on this list about how to start
X.

The CTL-ALT-Fx problem was discussed and no solution was produced.
This is still an open issue.  If you shutdown an X session and use
CTL-ALT-Fx before X completes resetting the screen and presents the
login prompt, the keyboard will lock.  This happens every time.

After a long sequence, the answer to the question of how to start X
was to set /etc/ttys as I said earlier and start xdm in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/<whatever>.sh.

I switched to this mechanism and have not had a problem since.

Has the "correct" way to start X changed back to using rc.local or
/etc/ttys?

tomdean


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