From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 14:32:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C143D37B405 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leblanc@mirror-image.net) Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (leblanc.mirrorimage.net [209.192.210.146]) by mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05343 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:32:14 -0400 Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (8.11.5/8.11.4) id f79LWCw30506 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:32:10 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4: getty repeats too quickly? Message-ID: <20010809173207.A11269@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010809141418.A4399@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20010810090651.C93773@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010810090651.C93773@itouchnz.itouch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! 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 Very nice Johnathan! All the docs I saw said to put the config in /etc. I just linked it into /etc/X11/ and ran xdm -nodaemon. Problem solved. I _am_ still seeing a little bit of the 'crawling pixel' syndrome, but it is _MUCH_ better overall! I will take a look at some other docs and try a couple things, but I can at least get back to work now. Thanks a bunch! Lou On 08/10/01 09:06 AM, Jonathan Chen sat at the `puter and typed: > 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 > -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message