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From: "Chris Huisman" <chuisman@telusplanet.com>
To: "Doug Denault" <doug@safeport.com>
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Subject: RE: xdm problems: urgent
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:37:28 -0600
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Unfortunately ctrl-alt-F1 does not get me a text prompt.  Is there anything
else I can do??

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Denault [mailto:doug@safeport.com]
Sent: October 14, 2001 4:24 PM
To: Chris Huisman
Cc: Freebsd-Questions
Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent


First this should be done in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Use ctrl-alt-F1 to get a text prompt. then
  a) killall xdm, or more specifically
  b) kill -TERM `cat /var/run/xdm-pid`


On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Chris Huisman wrote:

> I have created an rc.local file that calls .../xdm, so now my machine
brings
> up a graphical login screen on boot.  The problem is, I am unable to type
in
> a username or password.  I don't know what's going on.  Is there any way
to
> get around this?  I mean how do I boot into a non-graphical login prompt,
or
> cancel xdm when it comes up?  I can't type anything into the console
window
> either.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>
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