From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 6:29:31 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 06:29:28 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5040137B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 06:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23838 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jan 2001 14:29:16 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:29:16 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: John Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XF86 oddities. Message-ID: <20010102082916.A18420@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jmw@nyc.rr.com on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:35:10PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I recently installed XFree86 3.3.6 on my 4.2-STABLE laptop and am > experiencing something odd. It seems that after an X session, the machine > appears to "lockup"- not allowing any text input from the keyboard for a > few seconds... [snip] Uh... I have no idea. > Finally, just a quick question. In the 'rc.conf' man page, it > states that if you configure your network interface via DHCP, the > hostname string in rc.conf should be set to "" and dhclient will > insert the correct name itself. However, this fails to work as I > end up with a blank hostname. Am I missing something here? You have to set `ifconfig_xl0' or whatever to "DHCP". (Before, it was probably something like "inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0".) FYI, you'll get better response by posting one question per mail, since many of the "answerers" on this list (including myself, usually) scan by subject line or by the first few lines of your message. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message