From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 7:47:33 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 CBA0E14E71 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:47:31 -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 KAA21153 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:47:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36F665FE.82F0E85A@math.udel.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:47:11 -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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XDM kookiness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello: I've got xdm running on my FreeBSD 3.1-R system (and it was running on 2.2.8-R before that). It is started with a xdm.sh script in the /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d directory (is there any other way to start it?). Quite frequently, after I boot up the system and I get to the login window, the keyboard input isn't echoed in the login window. The keyboard input is accepted, as I found out by telnetting in from another system and seeing myself logged in, plus Ctrl-Alt-Delete works. Sometimes it needs a couple reboots before the keboard input is echoed to the screen. The keyboard works fine. It's a MS-Natural-layout keyboard, and I told xf86config that. Does anyone know what causes this? One more oddity (or misconfiguration on my part): when I log in via xdm, I don't show up in the output of the 'last' command. Is this because I should be running xdm a different way? Thanks in advance for your help. -- 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