From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 14: 7:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4E037B403 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f79L6pt95245; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:06:51 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:06:51 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4: getty repeats too quickly? Message-ID: <20010810090651.C93773@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010809141418.A4399@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010809141418.A4399@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: [...] > When I ran XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new I got a nice > clean, well centered and not very exciting grey grid. With NO blue > line, no 'crawling pixel syndrome' etc. So I assumed the whole thing > was kopacetic. > > So, I re-enabled xdm from /etc/ttys, and dropped to single, back to > multi, and boom. > > This is what I see: > > Aug 9 13:56:32 leblanc init: getty repeating too quickly on port > /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > > And I haven't a darn clue how to fix this. > > I don't know if it will help, but I am attaching my XF86Config file. > > Thanks for any ideas. xdm(1) expects the config file to live in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Did you remember to: # cp /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config xdm also logs to /var/log/xdm-erros, and /var/log/XFree86.0.log Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message