From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 6:32:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2E537C35B for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:32:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA16416; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:35:49 +0200 Message-ID: <39818B5D.638CFC2C@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:32:13 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Walter Spierings , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM allows no keybord-input ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > fOn Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Walter Spierings wrote: > > > After re-installing FreeBSD 4.0 (because I had some library problems), I > > add the line: > > > > DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 > > > > to my xdm-config file. To allow X logins for users but root. This after > > reading it in one of this e-mail (18 Apr. 2000). Now when I login as root > > and than startx XDM there is no problem. But when I put XDM in the rc.local > > file to start it automatically, (following the book, 3rd edition) it just > > seems to ignore the keyboard, even Ctrl-Alt-F1..8 for a new non grafic > > login is't possible. The system still works, NFS shares and Samba are still > > hot, but my only choice is to remote login and reboot. > > I believe this is in the FAQ somewhere. > > It has been a long time since I ran X. IIRC, you have to tell rc.local to > 'sleep' for a few seconds as there is some conflict for the console going > on at boot time. Check in the FAQ to be sure. Alternatively, you may wire your X to a specific console, which must be switched off in /etc/ttys. I cannot provide the exact syntax how to do this out of the top of my head... HTH -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message