From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 08:42:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA02234 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 08:42:51 -0800 Received: from smyrno.sol.net (smyrno.sol.net [206.55.64.117]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA02220 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 08:42:45 -0800 Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by smyrno.sol.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA17637 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:42:39 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id KAA20160; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:43:33 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511241643.KAA20160@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Argh, lost console :-( To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Nov 95 10:43:30 CST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 959 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Frustrating: I just lost my *(#@&@#^*( console again. What happened: I put xdm as the last entry in /etc/rc.local on a 486DX/33 with 32MB RAM, Fahrenheit 1280 VGA card, running 2.0.5R. When the system comes up it appeared to work but I totally lost my keyboard. xdm comes up, I can move my mouse, but I cannot type anything. After much poking and prodding at it with vidcontrol, I got it "sorta" back - I got a login: banner but only garbage when I typed. I was then able to run startx from remote - and everything worked (including kbd) - but when I exited, the keyboard was again in a sorry state. I'd just reboot the machine but it's also my ftp server, and there are people logged in. Is there a way to "reset" syscons to a sane state? ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847