From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 22:45:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from numbertwo.domainfactory.de (numbertwo.domainfactory.de [194.221.134.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E712E37B73C for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steele@cloaked.de) Received: (qmail 31093 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 05:45:28 -0000 Received: from pc19e988b.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO steele.intra) ([193.158.152.139]) (envelope-sender ) by numbertwo.domainfactory.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2000 05:45:28 -0000 Received: (from steele@localhost) by steele.intra (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00790; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:44:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from steele) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:44:17 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt To: Andrew Lawson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm freeze and recovery Message-ID: <20000803074417.B692@cloaked.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from a.d.lawson@ntlworld.com on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:45:04AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:45:04AM +0100, Andrew Lawson wrote: > Hello > I have a big problem, I've installed xdm and set it up but when it starts I > have no keyboard input, basically I can do nothing. Also the ctrl-alt-F... > keys do not work. How do I get back into my PC? > > note: I'm a newbie, it shows... > Try pressing ctrl-c several times during the boot process before xdm is loaded. Then make sure that xdm is started with "xdm -nodaemon" because otherwise keyboard input won't work. ___ Benedikt Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message