Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:30:56 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Cc: jgreco@solaria.sol.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <199511260530.QAA12774@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951125050344.184A-100000@jazzy.phase-one.com.au> from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 25, 95 05:06:10 am
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>On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> Frustrating: I just lost my *(#@&@#^*( console again.
>>
>> What happened: I put xdm as the last entry in /etc/rc.local on a 486DX/33
>> with 32MB RAM, Fahrenheit 1280 VGA card, running 2.0.5R.
>
>The README in XF86312 says to start xdm from a tty in /etc/ttys
I always start it from /etc/rc.local (and haven't had any problems
as a consequence). I have the following in /etc/rc.local:
if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'
# Delay to allow the fontserver to come up
(sleep 5; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config)&
fi
>> After much poking and prodding at it with vidcontrol, I got it "sorta" back
>> - I got a login: banner but only garbage when I typed. I was then able to
>> run startx from remote - and everything worked (including kbd) - but when I
>> exited, the keyboard was again in a sorry state.
Perhaps running 'kbd_mode -u' will put it into the correct mode for X,
and 'kbd_mode -a' for text mode? I've never needed to use this though.
David
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