From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 2:47:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bunyip.flash.net (bunyip.flash.net [209.30.2.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6745A37B86E for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 02:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dionysos@mercury.galaxy.org) Received: from saturn.galaxy.org (p105-143.atnt1.dialup.abq1.flash.net [216.215.105.143]) by bunyip.flash.net (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA08891; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 04:47:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mercury.galaxy.org (mercury.galaxy.org [10.1.1.5]) by saturn.galaxy.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA02897; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:16:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dionysos@mercury.galaxy.org) Received: (from dionysos@localhost) by mercury.galaxy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA01608; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:45:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dionysos) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:45:19 -0600 From: Dionysos To: Benedikt Schmidt Cc: Andrew Lawson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm freeze and recovery Message-ID: <20000803034519.A1555@mercury.galaxy.org> References: <20000803074417.B692@cloaked.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000803074417.B692@cloaked.de>; from BeSchmidt@cloaked.de on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:44:17AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD mercury.galaxy.org 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:44:17AM +0200, Benedikt Schmidt wrote: > 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 > Alternatively, you may consider following the instructions provided in the FAQ ( http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/x.html#AEN2870 ). Personally I simply chose to run the xdm daemon from rc.local and simply have it sleep for 10 seconds before invoking it. I haven't had problems since. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message