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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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To: rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Richard Heller)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:20:41 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608071613.MAA04015@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> from "Richard Heller" at Aug 7, 96 12:13:57 pm
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> I'm having trouble setting up X windows.  I've got it pretty much up and
> running, but I can't get it to read the .xinitrc file.  What could cause
> that? 
> 
> Also, I keep getting messages like "getty repeating too fast" and "repeated last
> message 4 times."  What are those error messages trying to tell me?

Make sure all of the signals on your COM (sio) ports are properly
terminated.  Noise on DCD *could* cause getty to twitch...
Does the log indicate *where* (i.e. which port) getty is complaining?
If not, try manually disabling them in /etc/ttys to see when the
problem goes away (you need to kill -HUP init for this, though)

--don