Date: Fri, 24 Nov 95 10:43:30 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <199511241643.KAA20160@solaria.sol.net>
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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
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