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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:06:51 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4:  getty repeats too quickly?
Message-ID:  <20010810090651.C93773@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <20010809141418.A4399@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0400
References:  <20010809141418.A4399@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:

[...]
> When I ran XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new I got a nice
> clean, well centered and not very exciting grey grid.  With NO blue
> line, no 'crawling pixel syndrome' etc.  So I assumed the whole thing
> was kopacetic.
> 
> So, I re-enabled xdm from /etc/ttys, and dropped to single, back to
> multi, and boom.
> 
> This is what I see:
> 
> Aug  9 13:56:32 leblanc init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs
> 
> And I haven't a darn clue how to fix this.
> 
> I don't know if it will help, but I am attaching my XF86Config file.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.

xdm(1) expects the config file to live in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Did you
remember to:

	# cp /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config

xdm also logs to /var/log/xdm-erros, and /var/log/XFree86.0.log

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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