From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 31 8:16:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bigtower.net (bigtower.net [212.209.45.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7D3E37B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@z42.net) Received: (qmail 9786 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Jul 2001 15:16:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:16:47 +0200 From: Carl Drougge To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kdm startup script freaks out keyboard Message-ID: <20010731171646.A21732@bigtower.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve.Dobbs@networktelephone.net on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:49:30AM -0500 X-Operating-System: OpenBSD bigtower.net 2.7 BIGTOWER#8 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:49:30AM -0500, Steve Dobbs wrote: > I wrote a little startup script to automatically launch kdm upon boot, and > put it in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, and it works fine when I run it > as root when the machine is up, but when I boot and let the script get > launched automatically, kdm comes up, but the keyboard stops functioning > properly. (I can ctl-alt-delete, but I can't switch out switch out to > another virtual terminal, I can't ctl-alt-break, and I can't type any > letters). I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE. Sounds like it doesn't like being launched early, so try delaying it a bit. (Like replace "kdm" with "sh -c 'sleep 30 && kdm' &". If that works try lowering the sleep time a bit so you don't have to wait so long..) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message