From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 17:19:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9257A16A423 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF4343D68 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:19:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [204.147.87.125] (borg.iaces.com [204.147.87.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0BHJ3jE043016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:19:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <43C53E0E.8040803@iaces.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:19:10 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Smith References: <43C53267.10109@drexel.edu> In-Reply-To: <43C53267.10109@drexel.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:19:31 -0000 Two of us just went through it, last week. A number of tweaks gets you going again, but the real answer is to set: VTAllocation=true in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf You may want to set the Virtual Terminal you want as well. I turn off 5-8 to tty, and have mine come on VT5. I never use the four as it is. Paul. Justin Smith wrote: > After upgrading to STABLE a few days ago, several odd problems developed: > > 1. cups did not start automatically. It turned out the CUPS script was > being given the parameter 'faststart' rather than 'start' > > 2. GDM started but in an odd mode that didn't detect any keyboard input > (so I couldn't log in). The mouse continued to work. > When I started in nongraphical mode and manually started GDM as root, it > worked normally. > > Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Paul Root "Few people know what to do when hula girls attack." - Sam, age 8