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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