Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 05:06:10 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951125050344.184A-100000@jazzy.phase-one.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199511241643.KAA20160@solaria.sol.net>
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On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote:
> 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.
The README in XF86312 says to start xdm from a tty in /etc/ttys
The easiest way to automatically start the display manager on boot is
to add a line in /etc/ttys to start it on one of the unoccupied
virtual terminals:
ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
You should also make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a symbolic link to
the Xserver that matches your video card or edit the file Xservers in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm to specify the pathname of the X server.
The change to /etc/ttys won't take effect until you either reboot or
``kill -HUP 1'' to force initd to reread /etc/ttys. You can also test
the display manager manually by loging in as root on the console and
typing ``xdm -nodaemon''.
>
> 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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