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To: Kelvin <kfarmer@trentu.ca>
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Subject: Re: splash screen & xdm 
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:17:00 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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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?

Definitely a bug.

Which version of the X server are you using?

Did you see any error message when this happened?  /var/log/messages*
may reveal something.

Kazu

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