From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 26 7:12:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.64.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F27DE37B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:12:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (qmail 16333 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 15:12:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ruhr-uni-bochum.de) (134.147.159.3) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 15:12:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABF5CF4.9B271230@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:15:00 +0200 From: Thomas Stratmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: X <-> syscons problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I am having problems with X which seem to be related to another, similar to others on the list. Here's my list of symptoms: - Starting wdm at startup: I have wdm (with path) as the only command in my /etc/rc.local. After startup, I have no keyboard, except: the three lights work, switching to the eight tty's does not work but gives a beep except on ctrl-alt-2, which does nothing. ctrl-alt-delete will softly reboot the machine. So I deleted the wdm line in rc.local and run wdm out of the console after startup. This is the case for the following. - Killing X remotely (via ssh, su'ing to root): * when inside X/wdm: + (using kill -9 ) will kill X, restart X, wdm comes up. Keyboard seems to behave normally, but all tty's have blank (black) screens. ctrl-alt-delete does not reboot the machine, I have to use the wdm menus. + (using kill ) works normally, see next point. * when on the console: + killing X (both ways) will restart X and wdm, everything seems fine. I hope this is of worth for tracking problems. I will send you configuration files upon request, if I find the time I might as well do some further "testing-sequence". I believe rc.local is the right place to start wdm at startup, any better ideas? I would like to have wdm start after boot in the future, because I work on a machine which is also used by less experienced users. Cheers Thomas Stratmann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message