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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:54:37 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Kelvin <kfarmer@trentu.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: splash screen & xdm 
Message-ID:  <199901151654.IAA00940@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:54:08 EST." <369F72B0.4577EA3F@trentu.ca> 

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> 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?

It's arguably a bug - the splash should be cleared before the vty 
switch that X makes.

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