From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 22:26:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA10733 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10720 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01181; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:25:24 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19970210172523.01249@usn.blaze.net.au> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:25:23 +1100 From: David Nugent To: Brett Taylor Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X error References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61 In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Feb 02, 1997 at 10:04:50PM Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 02, 1997 at 10:04:50PM, Brett Taylor wrote: > I have X up and running and it everything appears to work fine. However, > in the console log I am getting the following message over and over again: > > Feb 9 21:57:00 peloton init: getty repeating too quickly on port > /dev/ttyv4, sleeping 30 secs > > I assume this is due to a slight misconfigure of the XF86Config file Not related, at least not directly. How many vt's does dmesg say your kernel is configured for? What vt does X say it is running on at startup? My guess is that you have a getty enabled on ttyv4 (in /etc/ttys) but you only have 4 vt's enabled (0 - 3). It is going to be related to that, anyway. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/