From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 6:34:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF3537B409 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9FDYCk95995; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:34:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:34:12 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Doug Denault Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent Cc: Freebsd-Questions , Chris Huisman Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Oct-2001 Doug Denault wrote: > Probably not. I did not mean the reply to be short (or worse). I am not > sure I understood what was going on. Still don't. I took his post to mean > he had lost the keyboard in which case.... If not between us he should > have gotten what he needed. > > If I offended you, I apologize. I am here to learn, get help, and help if > I can. No, no offense. :-) My reply was based on my experience a long time ago trying to do the same thing, running xdm out of rc.local or something similar. I later realized that the simplest way to do it was out of /etc/ttys. When I attempted to run xdm from a script, I would sometimes get the locked-up keyboard behavior he described in his post, which was why I suggested he try setting it up to start the other way. Hope that clears up any misunderstandings. Take care, Conrad > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >> >> On 15-Oct-2001 Doug Denault wrote: >> > I understood the original post to indicate could not login and start >> > an >> > xterm. If I am in error - mea culpa >> >> Ummm....maybe I replied in the wrong thread. :-) >> >> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> > > -- Conrad Sabatier The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message