From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 8:23:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBCF37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from excore1.hns.com (excore1.hns.com [139.85.52.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F68343E09 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gviswana@hns.com) Received: from hns.com (spwsun174.md.hns.com [139.85.45.25]) by excore1.hns.com (Switch-2.2.0/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g5SFNZn02125 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D1C7F77.3070708@hns.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:23:35 -0400 From: Giridhar Viswanathan Reply-To: giri29@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011206 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem running XFree86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, When I log into freeBSD 4.6, I get this error saying: ttyv8: getty( ) repeating too fast on port /dev/....... This is generated by init if I try loading X at boot time (My /etc/ttys file has the entry for X). If I try loading xdm at boot time, my screen keeps flickering (no idea why), since the X starts up okay and if I do a startx at command prompt, it loads beautifully into kde. I tried using kdm instead of xdm and I get the getty() error. I am running XFree86 4.2.0. Any idea how to get rid of this problem and be able to load automatically to xdm or kdm? Thanks, -Giri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message