Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:15:28 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Keyboard Not Responding With X startup Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.990127101405.20932E-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270047120.234-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> 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 becauseof 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'
When starting xdm from rc.local (or friends) you should explicitly tell
the X server what console to attach to:
cm215-ntw: {101} more /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 vt04
I think this should solve the problem you describe (and I also remember it
appearing in some FAQ somewhere).
>
> 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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