From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 21:09:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA27280 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:09:27 -0800 Received: from iis (iis.webnet.com.au [203.8.105.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA27250 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:09:12 -0800 Received: from jazzy.phase-one.com.au (gw.phase-one.com.au [203.21.35.254]) by iis (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA26439; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 16:09:29 +1100 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 05:06:10 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Marelas X-Sender: maral@jazzy.phase-one.com.au To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( In-Reply-To: <199511241643.KAA20160@solaria.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 >