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From: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Keyboard Not Responding With X startup
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270047120.234-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> from "Jason C. Wells" at "Jan 27, 1999  1: 4:46 am"
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:27:16 -0600 (CST)
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I had a similar occasion with 2.2.7-R
on a slow 486.

I addressed it to some type of racing condition, when X
gets the virtual console before getty gets it (or something like that).

I ended up editing the file /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
putting "sleep 7" there:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
        echo -n ' xdm';      (sleep 7;  /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm )&
fi


This worked for me.

Hope, this help,

Igor

> If I start xdm during init time from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d the keyboard does
> not respond. I cannot xlogin. I cannot CTRL-ALT-F* to another terminal. I
> cannot CTRL-ALT-BSP to kill the server. I cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart
> the box. I am forced to stare at xlogin.
> 
> If I start xdm from the command line every thing works normally.
> 
> I have a fresh build of X, world, and my kernel. This behavior is
> something new since I went -stable from 3.0R. I figure that rebuilding the
> universe would cure it because of the new syscons stuff. The rebuild
> didn't work.
> 
> It used to be that I would see the 'login:' prompt on the console before X
> would start. Now X starts before the local daemons finish there startup.  
> Also, xdm-errors shows that X is starting on VT2 instead of VT4. It shows
> and error:
> 
> System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm
> -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> "
> -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86
> compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> 
> Does anyone know why this might be happening? It seems like the timing of
> the X startup is coinciding with the starting of getty on ttyv1,2,3 and
> causing the keyboard to get lost in the shuffle.
> 
> Catchya Later,		|	Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter.
> Jason Wells		|	http://www.freebsd.org/
> 
> 
> 
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