Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:27:16 -0600 (CST) From: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> To: jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Not Responding With X startup Message-ID: <199901270127.TAA25054@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270047120.234-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> from "Jason C. Wells" at "Jan 27, 1999 1: 4:46 am"
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I had a similar occasion with 2.2.7-R
on a slow 486.
I addressed it to some type of racing condition, when X
gets the virtual console before getty gets it (or something like that).
I ended up editing the file /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
putting "sleep 7" there:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'; (sleep 7; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm )&
fi
This worked for me.
Hope, this help,
Igor
> If I start xdm during init time from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d the keyboard does
> not respond. I cannot xlogin. I cannot CTRL-ALT-F* to another terminal. I
> cannot CTRL-ALT-BSP to kill the server. I cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart
> the box. I am forced to stare at xlogin.
>
> If I start xdm from the command line every thing works normally.
>
> I have a fresh build of X, world, and my kernel. This behavior is
> something new since I went -stable from 3.0R. I figure that rebuilding the
> universe would cure it because of the new syscons stuff. The rebuild
> didn't work.
>
> It used to be that I would see the 'login:' prompt on the console before X
> would start. Now X starts before the local daemons finish there startup.
> Also, xdm-errors shows that X is starting on VT2 instead of VT4. It shows
> and error:
>
> System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm
> -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> "
> -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86
> compiled/xfree86.xkm'
>
> Does anyone know why this might be happening? It seems like the timing of
> the X startup is coinciding with the starting of getty on ttyv1,2,3 and
> causing the keyboard to get lost in the shuffle.
>
> Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter.
> Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/
>
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