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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:29:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Argh, lost console :-(
Message-ID:  <199511272129.WAA06661@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511271510.JAA28202@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 27, 95 09:10:46 am

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As Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > Put a "sleep 2" (or some other activity) behind, in order to allow xdm
> > to properly daemonize itself.
> 
> That's not the problem (I actually do an "fsck -y /dev/homepartition" after
> launching xdm which takes longer than a few seconds)...  xdm is running just
> dandy and X comes up "fine" - but the kbd isn't there.

A console driver bug?

At least, the above works for me.  (With either syscons or pcvt, this
is on some #9 graphics card, some of the newer S3 764 chips.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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