From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 22:16:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA15939 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15932 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id IAA18261; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:16:09 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:16:09 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Mike Jeays cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM troubles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: > I can run XDM successfully the 'deprecated' way, by putting the call in > /etc/ttys. But when I call it from /etc/rc.local, the login screen > appears, but it won't accept any keystrokes, not even the CTRL-ALT-F1 etc > combinations. I do have a 'sleep 2' call after the XDM call, as > recommended recently in this list. What do you have in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file? Be sure to specify the vty you expect it to start on in there, because otherwise, when started from rc.local, it may pick a vty that will later have getty started on it (at least I recall similar symptoms I had once with a bad Xservers file). Should be somthing like: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt04 -to 5 -bpp 16 ^^^^ > > Can anyone use XSM successfully? Others have reported that it doesn't > work, and it certainly dumps core on my machine. Why is there a call to > it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession if it doesn't work? > > Any clues would be much appreciated! > > > Nadav