From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 12:13:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91991538F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04653; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:13:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36F7F5EF.87AB2B89@math.udel.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:13:35 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Shenton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM kookiness References: <36F665FE.82F0E85A@math.udel.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris: Nope, no ideas, but ever since I've started it in the /etc/ttys file, it hasn't exhibited the problem. One thing, though. It still doesn't update the utmp database because I don't show up as logged in when I log in via xdm. Does anyone know the fix for this, or is it a feature? Chris Shenton wrote: > > Same here on 3.1-S and XF86-3.3.3 (latest of this writing). It acts > like it's not listening to the keyboard (various from decent Keytronic > to new cheapies) but a remote "ps" shows something like "login: > myusername". > > If I do *not* start xdm at boot (in /usr/X11$6/etc/rc.d) but wait for > the text screen, login as root, then start XDM, it works fine. This > has bugged me for a while. > > I think I encountered this problem on some 2.2.8-STABLE systems too, > probably with XFree86 of a couple revs ago. It did it for me also when I was using 2.2.8-R. > > > I noticed folks talking about starting in /etc/ttys, but it really > *should* work as a boot script. Any ideas? -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message