From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jul 22 11:13:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2D214DE0 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA23607; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:12:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA02907; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:12:02 -0600 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:12:02 -0600 Message-Id: <199907221812.MAA02907@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: scheper@beast.toad.net (Richard Scheper), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup In-Reply-To: <199907221800.LAA08972@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199907221800.LAA08972@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Heres my problem. I have an rc.local which starts up xdm, i.e. > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm > > > > which starts up the xdm login screen. However, at this point the keyboard > > input is locked out. Absolutely no key sequences have any effect. All else > > appears to work, i.e. the mouse still functions. I've experimented with > > this and have gathered the following clues: > > The xdm program, among other things, starts X. > > I believe the issue is one CPU running X doing inb/outb's while > the other CPU is in the kernel -- doing the same. Why would the other CPU doing the same inb/outb's as X? By the time init is run, the kernel is done 'setting up' the kernel. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message