From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 14:25:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA04940 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:25:59 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA04909 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:25:46 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA08026 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:24:24 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA11874; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:21:01 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA13931; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:21:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA06661; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:29:45 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511272129.WAA06661@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:29:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511271510.JAA28202@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 27, 95 09:10:46 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 667 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > > > Put a "sleep 2" (or some other activity) behind, in order to allow xdm > > to properly daemonize itself. > > That's not the problem (I actually do an "fsck -y /dev/homepartition" after > launching xdm which takes longer than a few seconds)... xdm is running just > dandy and X comes up "fine" - but the kbd isn't there. A console driver bug? At least, the above works for me. (With either syscons or pcvt, this is on some #9 graphics card, some of the newer S3 764 chips.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)