Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:57:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Keyboard Not Responding With X startup Message-ID: <199901270157.CAA06301@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Jason C. Wells wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> 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.
> [...]
> 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.
You should not start X before init has finished running /etc/rc
and starting all of its gettys (according to /etc/ttys).
Otherwise init will try to start a getty on the same vty on
which X is running, which is a Bad Thing.
Try "sleep 10" or something like that before starting X.
I think XFree also has an option to force it to use a certain
vty.
The easiest way to avoid all of those problems would be to
run xdm from /etc/ttys. I think there's even a (disabled)
example entry in that file.
Regards
Oliver
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