From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:45:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBAD14E10 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA08392; Mon, 17 May 1999 17:09:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:09:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Doug White Cc: "Brian D. McGrew" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard lockups ... UPDATE! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > > > Earlier I posted a message about my keyboard locking under X. I've found > > some interesting info ... > > > > The keyboard will always lock at some point under X when I start it at boot > > (ie. xdm in rc.local), however, if I do not run xdm at boot, rather start x > > manually (ie. xinit) after boot, my keyboard is fine (Or it has been for a > > day and a half with no reboot). > > > > My .xsession and .xinitrc are exactly the same files. Any ideas? > > Throw a 'sleep 2' in front of your xdm run in rc.local. If getty and xdm > start simultenously the console crashes. I was having the exact same problem, what helped me was running xdm from /etc/ttys file: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" xterm on secure I've never had a hang after I moved it here from rc.local. hope this helps, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message