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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