From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 10:37:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F192637BBE7 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA12969; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:49:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Walter Spierings Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM allows no keybord-input ? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000727111628.0125b350@pop.iaehv.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fOn Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Walter Spierings wrote: > After re-installing FreeBSD 4.0 (because I had some library problems), I > add the line: > > DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 > > to my xdm-config file. To allow X logins for users but root. This after > reading it in one of this e-mail (18 Apr. 2000). Now when I login as root > and than startx XDM there is no problem. But when I put XDM in the rc.local > file to start it automatically, (following the book, 3rd edition) it just > seems to ignore the keyboard, even Ctrl-Alt-F1..8 for a new non grafic > login is't possible. The system still works, NFS shares and Samba are still > hot, but my only choice is to remote login and reboot. I believe this is in the FAQ somewhere. It has been a long time since I ran X. IIRC, you have to tell rc.local to 'sleep' for a few seconds as there is some conflict for the console going on at boot time. Check in the FAQ to be sure. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message