Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:28:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> Cc: "Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: xdm and vtys Message-ID: <XFMail.980612142822.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <11FFBC5E23EDD111AF8D006008CEB82D014D64@EXCHANGESERVER>
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On 11-Jun-98 Rick Siple wrote:
> I have noticed some odd behavior from XDM that I am hoping
> someone can enlighten me on. I realize X related question should go to
> the X mailing lists but I thought this might relate to FreeBSD's VTYs.
> I moved the xdm command from /etc/rc.local to
> /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, for no good reason other than it seemed to be the
> logical place to start all X related services. Anyway, when started
> from here xdm seems to start before the VTY manager and grab the
> console. In this case the Alt-function and Ctrl-Alt-Function key combos
> don't work, they just beep. More importantly though the keyboard does
> not work, you can not type into the xdm login window. This was easily
> fixed with a five second delay in the sh script that starts xdm so no
> big deal, just interested in what is actually going on.
What is in your /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/<sh-executable> ?
Mine just has :
#!/bin/sh
if [ "X$1" = X"start" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/X11/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'
/usr/X11/bin/xdm
fi
fi
> Also I configured FreeBSD/xdm to start two X sessions, one on
> vty2 and one on vty3. (Did the usual, turned off vty2 in /etc/ttys,
What do you start by vty2 vty3 ???
Show please.
Malte.
> added :1 to the Xservers file.) The first time I tried this I edited
> ttys, sent and HUP to init, edited Xservers and sent a HUP to xdm and
> all worked well, both X session were fine. On restart though, I got a
> behavior similar to when xdm starts before the vty manager (or whatever
> is happening in the first case) Beeps when attempting to switch vtys
> and at the xdm login with no keyboard.
> If anyone can shed an light on this behavior and specifically
> how to get more than one X session started with xdm, I would appreciate
> it.
>
> __________
> Rick Siple
> RickSiple@MPAInc.com
>
>
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Date: 12-Jun-98
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