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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:19:59 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup 
Message-ID:  <199907230520.OAA05070@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:51:41 MST." <199907230451.VAA52884@ix.netcom.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907230012350.13821-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com>  <199907230451.VAA52884@ix.netcom.com> 

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>I am runing 4.0 current SMP.

How recent is it?

>The CTL-ALT-Fx problem was discussed and no solution was produced.
>This is still an open issue.  If you shutdown an X session and use
>CTL-ALT-Fx before X completes resetting the screen and presents the
>login prompt, the keyboard will lock.  This happens every time.

Please describe the exact sequence and symptom.  How did you start X? 
By xdm?  How did you "shutdown" the X sesssion?  When the keyboard is
looked up, which vty are you in?  Do NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock
change LED state?  If you try to switch to another vty by hitting
ALT-Fx, do you here beep?  Would you hit ALT-Fx several times to see
if it makes any difference?

>After a long sequence, the answer to the question of how to start X
>was to set /etc/ttys as I said earlier and start xdm in
>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/<whatever>.sh.
>
>I switched to this mechanism and have not had a problem since.
>
>Has the "correct" way to start X changed back to using rc.local or
>/etc/ttys?

Some people like /etc/ttys.  Other people prefer rc.local or
/usr/local/etc/rc*.  Me?  I don't care which is "correct", so long as
it works.  Well, maybe I should think harder to decide which is more
"correct"...

Kazu


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