From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jul 22 21:52: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa17-26.ix.netcom.com [207.93.156.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE1D14C4A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA52884; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907230451.VAA52884@ix.netcom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: celebris.tddhome: tomdean set sender to tomdean@ix.netcom.com using -f From: Thomas Dean To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:32:09 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup References: <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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/.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message