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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Video blinking at login prompt.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960717230517.393F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960717163157.136527C-100000@homer14.u.washington.edu>

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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I just noticed a recent development that bothers me...
> 
> When I boot and get a login prompt, about two seconds after the prompt
> appears, the screen goes blank for a split second, three times. If I am
> typing my login name or password during the event, keystrokes are lost.
> 
> The only change I made that would coincide with this change is that I
> installed the Xwindows distribution, which isn't properly configured to
> run as of yet. Does installing Xwindows make changes to /etc/rc or
> something to launch at boot time? I made no such changes manually....

Shouldn't have, but it sounds like the X server is trying to start up
and is failing.  That's what it does when I have the X server
misconfigured.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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