From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 26 17:57:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05912 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05903 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06301; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:57:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:57:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199901270157.CAA06301@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Not Responding With X startup Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason C. Wells wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > 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. > [...] > 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. You should not start X before init has finished running /etc/rc and starting all of its gettys (according to /etc/ttys). Otherwise init will try to start a getty on the same vty on which X is running, which is a Bad Thing. Try "sleep 10" or something like that before starting X. I think XFree also has an option to force it to use a certain vty. The easiest way to avoid all of those problems would be to run xdm from /etc/ttys. I think there's even a (disabled) example entry in that file. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message