Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:50:43 -0400 From: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> To: "Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: xdm and vtys Message-ID: <11FFBC5E23EDD111AF8D006008CEB82D014D64@EXCHANGESERVER>
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I have noticed some odd behavior from XDM that I am hoping someone can enlighten me on. I realize X related question should go to the X mailing lists but I thought this might relate to FreeBSD's VTYs. I moved the xdm command from /etc/rc.local to /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, for no good reason other than it seemed to be the logical place to start all X related services. Anyway, when started from here xdm seems to start before the VTY manager and grab the console. In this case the Alt-function and Ctrl-Alt-Function key combos don't work, they just beep. More importantly though the keyboard does not work, you can not type into the xdm login window. This was easily fixed with a five second delay in the sh script that starts xdm so no big deal, just interested in what is actually going on. Also I configured FreeBSD/xdm to start two X sessions, one on vty2 and one on vty3. (Did the usual, turned off vty2 in /etc/ttys, added :1 to the Xservers file.) The first time I tried this I edited ttys, sent and HUP to init, edited Xservers and sent a HUP to xdm and all worked well, both X session were fine. On restart though, I got a behavior similar to when xdm starts before the vty manager (or whatever is happening in the first case) Beeps when attempting to switch vtys and at the xdm login with no keyboard. If anyone can shed an light on this behavior and specifically how to get more than one X session started with xdm, I would appreciate it. __________ Rick Siple RickSiple@MPAInc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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