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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:48:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: xdm problems
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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> Does anyone know of a problem in either xdm, syscons or my setup
> that makes that xdm is unable to grab the keyboard?
> What happens is that xdm seems to come up fine, when looking at
> the display but the keyboard is still connected to ttyv0.
> 
> I am starting xdm from rc.local with a sleep after it, just as the FAQ
> says.

Is ``options XSERVER'' in your kernel?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major