From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 23:06:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA28743 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA28734 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00434; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video blinking at login prompt. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > I just noticed a recent development that bothers me... > > When I boot and get a login prompt, about two seconds after the prompt > appears, the screen goes blank for a split second, three times. If I am > typing my login name or password during the event, keystrokes are lost. > > The only change I made that would coincide with this change is that I > installed the Xwindows distribution, which isn't properly configured to > run as of yet. Does installing Xwindows make changes to /etc/rc or > something to launch at boot time? I made no such changes manually.... Shouldn't have, but it sounds like the X server is trying to start up and is failing. That's what it does when I have the X server misconfigured. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major