From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 13:53:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00312 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00718; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:52:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kurt Joseph Windisch cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm error In-Reply-To: <199805291604.JAA22610@peabody.> 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 On Fri, 29 May 1998, Kurt Joseph Windisch wrote: > I'm having a problem getting xdm to work with FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE. > I placed 'xdm ; sleep 1' at the end of /etc/rc.local. When the system > boots, the xdm login screen appears, but all keyboard input goes to > the vt 1 console instead of X. However, if I login as root via the > console and start xdm manually, it works fine. Try sleeping before running xdm instead of sleeping after it. I run X out of rc.local just fine on 5 different machines. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message