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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: X386 & Keyboard
Message-ID: <#!mnm2h.hasty@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:09:29 GMT
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References: <1803hdINNn22@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <david.715409745@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
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In article <david.715409745@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
>joergens@snorre.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ulrich Joergens (PG211)) writes:
>
>>I have the following problem:
>
>>starting xdm from /etc/rc (as last entry) my keyboard is ignored.
>
>Did you remove the line in your /etc/ttys which specified the console 
>(or 'vga' is more correct) as a getty line?
>
>You must remove the 
>'console "/usr/bin/getty pc2" on secure'
>line to stop the getty grabbing control of your keyboard.
>
>
>I may be wrong though... :-)

You are correct David!
Amancio Hasty

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