From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 15 08:52:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08088 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ivory.trentu.ca (trentu.ca [192.75.12.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08076 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kfarmer@trentu.ca) Received: from trentu.ca ([192.75.12.156]) by trentu.ca (PMDF V5.1-10 #22248) with ESMTP id <01J6KHH1KBHI0042JG@trentu.ca> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:52:22 EST Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:54:08 -0500 From: Kelvin Subject: splash screen & xdm To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <369F72B0.4577EA3F@trentu.ca> Organization: Trent University MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems that if the splash screen image is not cleared (ie: press any key) before xdm starts up then once logged in the user is unable to switch to a vitual terminal (ie: ctrl-alt-f1 etc), and it just beeps when those keys are pressed. Solution? Putting the command kldunload splash_bmp before the line that loads xdm seems to work. Is this a bug or just the way things are? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message