Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:58:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM kookiness Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9903221057120.13477-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <36F665FE.82F0E85A@math.udel.edu>
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You can also start it from /etc/ttys: ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Then kill -1 1. Joe Clarke On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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