From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 14:42: 9 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 2AE3237B830 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steele@cloaked.de) Received: (qmail 30963 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 21:42:03 -0000 Received: from p3e9b9bda.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO steele.intra) ([62.155.155.218]) (envelope-sender ) by numbertwo.domainfactory.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2000 21:42:03 -0000 Received: (from steele@localhost) by steele.intra (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00382; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:41:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from steele) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:41:56 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt To: Dionysos Cc: Andrew Lawson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm freeze and recovery Message-ID: <20000803234156.A356@cloaked.de> References: <20000803074417.B692@cloaked.de> <20000803034519.A1555@mercury.galaxy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000803034519.A1555@mercury.galaxy.org>; from di0nys0s@earthlink.net on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:45:19AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:45:19AM -0600, Dionysos wrote: > 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. Thanks for the hint. Now i'm using "sleep 5 && wdm" (wdm is based on xdm) in a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ to make sure that it's started just before getty. Because I have some other services in this directory which are started _after_ rc.local. Using "wdm -nodaemon" instead of "sleep 5 && wdm" seemed to work at the beginning but after 30 minutes in X keyboard input stopped working. Until now I didn't experience these problems anymore with the sleep solution. ___ Benedikt Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message