From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 02:48:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07561 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (root@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA07552 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:48:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id LAA17786; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:48:38 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199710271048.LAA17786@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: xdm problems In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Oct 26, 97 11:48:33 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:48:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > 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? > Nope. That's a pcvt only option and is not necessary for syscons -Guido