From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 05:31:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29006 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 05:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA28950 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 05:30:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.188]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:31:54 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00885; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:28:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <11FFBC5E23EDD111AF8D006008CEB82D014D64@EXCHANGESERVER> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:28:22 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Rick Siple Subject: RE: xdm and vtys Cc: "Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ ? 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 12-Jun-98 Time: 12:58:11 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message