From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 31 10: 5:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from annuvin.com (dsl-64-192-141-77.telocity.com [64.192.141.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64BA237B403 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddollar@annuvin.com) Received: (qmail 23608 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2001 15:18:45 -0000 Received: from arawn.dhcp.annuvin.com (HELO arawn) (arawn@192.168.1.2) by dsl-64-192-141-77.telocity.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 15:18:45 -0000 Message-ID: <017601c119d4$25db8870$0201a8c0@arawn> From: "David Dollar" To: "Carl Drougge" , References: <20010731171646.A21732@bigtower.net> Subject: Re: kdm startup script freaks out keyboard Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:19:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2505.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2505.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just change the off to on in /etc/ttys concerning xdm, it'll make your kdm load on boot. David Dollar ddollar@annuvin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Drougge" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: Re: kdm startup script freaks out keyboard > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:49:30AM -0500, Steve Dobbs wrote: > > > I wrote a little startup script to automatically launch kdm upon boot, and > > put it in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, and it works fine when I run it > > as root when the machine is up, but when I boot and let the script get > > launched automatically, kdm comes up, but the keyboard stops functioning > > properly. (I can ctl-alt-delete, but I can't switch out switch out to > > another virtual terminal, I can't ctl-alt-break, and I can't type any > > letters). I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE. > > Sounds like it doesn't like being launched early, so try delaying it a bit. > (Like replace "kdm" with "sh -c 'sleep 30 && kdm' &". If that works try > lowering the sleep time a bit so you don't have to wait so long..) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message